Missouri · Nonprofit
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (Missouri) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,013,140 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($549,924). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $56M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $66M
What Southwest Baptist University does
Mission
Christ-centered, caring academic community preparing students to be servant leaders in a global society; a higher-education institution offering courses that lead to both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Southwest Baptist University is an institution of higher education offering courses that lead to both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Students may choose from more than 100 areas of academic study as they pursue a liberal arts based, career-oriented education. Students are eligible to graduate with a b.a., b.m., b.s., b.s.n., b.s.w., a.a., a.a.s., as.n., a.s.r., and as. Degree. Graduate degrees include: m.b.a., m.s. (in education and nursing), m.s. (in educational administration), ed.s., ed.d. (in educational leadership), and the d.p.t. (continued on schedule o)the university is comprised of five colleges: mercy college of health professions, college of professional programs, geneva casebolt college of arts and behavioral sciences, the robert w. Plaster college of business, and the college of natural and applied science. Sbu is a thriving higher education institution with more than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The main campus of the university is located in bolivar, mo, with additional campuses in mountain view, salem, springfield and online. The university reports a 12:1 student to teacher ratio for the undergraduate program. Additionally, 66% of full-time…
$32,319,667 spentof which $16,405,256 as grants$37,865,575 earned by the program61% of program spendingSouthwest Baptist University offers a variety of organized activities and student services that contribute to the mission of the university. This section will highlight some of the activities and services but will not provide a detailed listing of all opportunities. The university provides a comprehensive transition/orientation program for new students. Two outstanding components of the transition program include welcome week and the university success center (usc). Welcome week is an orientation program for all new students held bi-annually on the campus the week prior to the beginning of the fall and spring semesters. Each new student is provided a small-group experience designed to build interpersonal relationships and acclimate them to the higher education culture. (continued on schedule o)the primary goal of the university success center is to promote student success through developmental advising and relationship building with students. The usc provides weekly contact with new students that focuses on academic goals, opportunities for engagement with all areas of university life, the use of critical thinking skills, goal-setting, and practice in decision-making. Students…
$9,283,599 spent$694,178 earned by the program18% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises consists, for the most part, of the university dining commons (cafeteria), the residence halls, conference center, and the jane and ken meyer wellness and sports center. The dining commons is the main facility for providing meals to students. The marketplace serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner six days per week, and brunch and dinner on sundays. In addition to the marketplace, the university offers a convenience store style shop called the corner market, a coffee and sandwich shop called craft coffee and deli-craft, and a shake smart location. Campus housing is available for non-married, full-time students on the bolivar campus. The university has several different housing facilities, including residence halls and apartments. (continued on schedule o)residence facilities are under the direction of university employees called resident directors and students employed to serve as resident assistants (ras). The ras are responsible for providing activities, informing residents of dorm policies, and helping students grow spiritually and socially. The conference center provides general summer opportunities for youth and children's camps for summer programs. These…
$8,620,932 spent$6,233,790 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services
$2,545,185 spent$1,652,092 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,769,383.
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 $81M to $96M (+19%).
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 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 5% · 2021 11% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Fred Broome
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $205k → $439k.
11 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
45% 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 SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 17% · 2020 32% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $985k 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
SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 24 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.8M on record — $14.8M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$14.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$736k
- Scholarships-Students$2k
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 SOUTHWEST BAPTIST 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Missouri Baptist Convention · exempt
- Missouri Baptist Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY?
- SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (Missouri) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,013,140 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ($549,924). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $4,013,140 in grants to SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC is the largest funder on record, with $549,924 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 61 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