North Carolina · Nonprofit
PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY
PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,686,650 to it, the largest being CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 ($2,515,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What Pfeiffer University does
Mission
Pfeiffer is a globally engaged, regional university distinctive for its transformational undergraduate experiences and its leadership in professional and graduate programs that fill demonstrated needs. Vested in its history as a united methodist-related university, and propelled forward by an innovative faculty, pfeiffer prepares its students for a lifetime of achievement, scholarship, spriituality, and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In the 2024-2025 academic year, the francis center for servant leadership and faith formation engaged students, staff, and other volunteers in a total of 1325 hours of community service. In addition, other university areas participated in 950 hours of service. Therefore, the total number of hours equals 2275 hours.highlights for the year include: community service through habitat for humanity, stanly community christian ministry, backpack buddies, moving in first time students, wreaths across america and more. These community service activies range from on site work, item collection, and assembling items on campus and delivering to the agency. The francis center worked with local churches to provide a good neighbor pantry in pfeiffer's chapel for students and neighbors get food or hygiene items they need without judgment and participated in a community trunk or treat. Student athletes conducted a canned food drive and christmas toy drive, and assisted with a special olympics day. Other student clubs/groups collected school supplies and hygiene items.these activies provided on and off campus activies for students to participate in service learning. Some activities were hands on…
$33,983,517 spentof which $13,498,369 as grants$30,820,119 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $33,983,517.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $38M to $62M (+60%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 7% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Mr Roger Dick
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $809k → $1.3M.
16 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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
PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
38% 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 PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 31% · 2019 24% · 2020 27% · 2021 27% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
41% of PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
68% of PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M 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.
Against its field
PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record.
- Department of Education$11.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$85k
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.
Organizations like PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY?
- PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,686,650 to it, the largest being CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 ($2,515,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $9,686,650 in grants to PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY?
- CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 is the largest funder on record, with $2,515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 57 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