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Pacific Union College

Pacific Union College (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,806,353 to it, the largest being ARCHIE TONGE EDUCATION FUND ($2,156,920). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$47M
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$14M
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Pacific Union College does

Mission

Pacific Union College is a seventh-day adventist learning community offering an excellent christ-centered education that prepares its students for productive lives of useful human service and uncompromising personal integrity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide liberal arts college education for around 900 individual students including providing work opportunities for around 300 students to earn a portion of their education and/or living costs.

    $47,229,456 spentof which $13,004,190 as grants$36,136,917 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $47,229,456.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($53M) Expenses 100 ($57M) Net assets 100 ($45M)2018 Revenue 94 ($50M) Expenses 96 ($54M) Net assets 90 ($40M)2019 Revenue 97 ($52M) Expenses 95 ($54M) Net assets 84 ($37M)2020 Revenue 78 ($42M) Expenses 89 ($51M) Net assets 65 ($29M)2021 Revenue 92 ($49M) Expenses 83 ($47M) Net assets 80 ($36M)2022 Revenue 78 ($42M) Expenses 89 ($51M) Net assets 52 ($23M)2023 Revenue 82 ($44M) Expenses 91 ($52M) Net assets 38 ($17M)2024 Revenue 93 ($49M) Expenses 89 ($50M) Net assets 39 ($17M)2025 Revenue 89 ($47M) Expenses 92 ($52M) Net assets 31 ($14M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (92)Net assets (31)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $87M to $99M (+13%).

$90M
$91M
$86M
$87M
$99M
$87M
$87M
$82M
$81M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 6% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

18% of Pacific Union College’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,254 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3.3M
’17
−$4.5M
’18
−$1.9M
’19
−$8.9M
’20
$1.9M
’21
−$8.8M
’22
−$7.8M
’23
−$973k
’24
−$4.7M
’25
0.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Sandra Roberts

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed322824222217272629
Joined·+6+7+0+1+3+16+6+7
No longer listed·1011218674
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $450k → $650k.

10 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Pacific Union College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Pacific Union College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Pacific Union College.

57%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 79% · 2019 53% · 2020 70% · 2021 78% · 2022 52% · 2023 51% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of Pacific Union College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

97% of Pacific Union College's grant income comes from California funders.

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CO
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $789k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Pacific Union College's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Pacific Union College receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record.

Federal$7.3M
grants $7.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$6.4M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$366k
  • Department of Justice$300k
  • Department of Agriculture$210k
  • National Science Foundation$20k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

21
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Howell Mountain Enterprises · corp_trust
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (2) · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Pacific Union College?
Pacific Union College (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,806,353 to it, the largest being ARCHIE TONGE EDUCATION FUND ($2,156,920). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pacific Union College have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,806,353 in grants to Pacific Union College, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pacific Union College?
ARCHIE TONGE EDUCATION FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,156,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pacific Union College find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing