New York · Nonprofit
ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,063,040 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,550,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $63M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $92M
What Roberts Wesleyan University does
Mission
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Roberts is an innovative and distinctive christian university offering excellence in 50 plus liberal arts and professional programs. The university prepares students for service to humanity in business, the arts and a variety of human service fields. During the 24-25 fiscal year, over 1,700 students were enrolled.
$59,294,444 spentof which $21,710,818 as grants$52,487,901 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $59,294,444.
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 2020 to 2021, from $127M to $137M (+8%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 2% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of ROBERTS WESLEYAN 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. 6 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
Terry R Taber
Trustee - Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $290k → $470k.
10 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $162k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northeastern Seminary). These are real filings, and they are not money ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 52% · 2019 55% · 2020 39% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 21% — 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
43% of ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $573k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 22 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.2M on record.
- Department of Education$7.8M
- Department of Justice$399k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$73k
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 ROBERTS WESLEYAN 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Housing Development Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROBERTS WESLEYAN 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 ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,063,040 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($9,550,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $13,063,040 in grants to ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 62 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