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SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being TEXTRON CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 122353 ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.9M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$42M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Southern Nazarene University Foundation does

Mission

The foundation supports southern nazarene university, a 501(c)(3) entity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarships under the control of the snu foundation.

    $1,341,254 spentof which $1,341,254 as grants$77,356 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,341,254.

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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.7M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 112 ($2.4M) Expenses 101 ($1.7M) Net assets 110 ($25M)2019 Revenue 53 ($1.1M) Expenses 96 ($1.6M) Net assets 115 ($27M)2020 Revenue 95 ($2.0M) Expenses 88 ($1.5M) Net assets 120 ($28M)2021 Revenue 160 ($3.4M) Expenses 156 ($2.6M) Net assets 153 ($35M)2022 Revenue 116 ($2.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.9M) Net assets 137 ($32M)2023 Revenue 107 ($2.3M) Expenses 118 ($2.0M) Net assets 147 ($34M)2024 Revenue 119 ($2.6M) Expenses 175 ($3.0M) Net assets 167 ($39M)2025 Revenue 137 ($2.9M) Expenses 121 ($2.0M) Net assets 183 ($42M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (137)Expenses (121)Net assets (183)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 2024 to 2025, from $39M to $47M (+20%).

$25M
$31M
$27M
$28M
$36M
$33M
$35M
$39M
$47M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

46% of SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$442k
’17
$673k
’18
−$490k
’19
$544k
’20
$783k
’21
$577k
’22
$279k
’23
−$417k
’24
$884k
’25
5.4
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed352928302423232123
Joined·+3+2+4+2+2+1+0+6
No longer listed·93283124
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $8k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $474k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southern Nazarene University). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 1 state in all.

RI

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

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’21
’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

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 Oklahoma

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 25%Fundraising 9%

Governance

23
board members
87%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Southern Nazarene University · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being TEXTRON CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 122353 ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37,500 in grants to SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
TEXTRON CHARITABLE TRUST DTD 122353 is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing