Texas · Nonprofit
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,251,287 to it, the largest being CULLEN TRUST FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ($4,181,710). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $132M
- Funders on record
- 119
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $566M
What Southwestern University does
Mission
Southwestern University, under the auspices of the united methodist church, is committed to undergraduate liberal arts education involving both the study of and participation in significant aspects of our cultural heritage, expressed primarily through the arts, the sciences, the institutions, and the professions of society. See schedule o form 990, part 1, line 1 note for Southwestern University's complete mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional services and financial assistance: the university's primary mission is fostering a liberal arts educational community of the highest caliber. The university seeks to develop a community of scholars in both its faculty and student body that is self-critical and tough-minded, and that maintains rigorous academic standards. Though its paideia program, the university transcends conventional approaches to teaching and learning through a student-driven, faculty-led experience. The program emphasizes intellectual curiosity, promotes connections between academic courses, offers intercultural and diversity experiences, encourages civic engagement, and supports collaborative or guided research and creative works. For the year, the university provided services to approximately 1,500 students in its academic instructional programs. Most of the university's enrollment is traditional college-age students, and for the fall 2024 semester, 98.8% were enrolled full-time (12 or more credit hours for the semester). The student-teacher ratio was approximately 11:1 in the current year. Approximately 98% of students received institutional financial assistance. Approximately 56% of…
$77,888,045 spentof which $45,415,795 as grants$52,860,278 earned by the program75% of program spendingStudent services: the university seeks to support its primary academic mission through robust student services for its primarily residential liberal arts campus. Student services include the police department, student activities, residential life administration, career counseling services, student health and counseling services, ncaa iii athletics, intramural sports, and other services vital to support a residential academic community of the highest caliber and quality.
$13,704,804 spent$22,726,275 earned by the program13% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises include student residential center operation and food service operations. For this academic year, approximately 68.8% of the student body lived on campus in residential centers. Residential centers include living/learning centers which integrate classroom and other experiences into the residential environment. Food services is provided primarily for residential and non residential student usage, faculty, staff, and guests of the university. Auxiliary enterprises expenses include depreciation, interest, and physical plant expense allocations.
$11,733,326 spent$16,677,687 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,326,175.
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 2022 to 2023, from $545M to $643M (+18%).
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 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Christopher E Cragg
Trustee & chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.8M.
28 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $7.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Southwestern Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 73% · 2019 29% · 2020 25% · 2021 59% · 2022 32% · 2023 23% — 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
50% of SOUTHWESTERN 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
85% of SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.8M on record.
- Department of Education$9.0M
- National Science Foundation$2.3M
- Department of Justice$496k
- Department of Commerce$55k
- Department of the Interior$40k
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 SOUTHWESTERN 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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
- Su 560 Land Holdings I LLC · disregarded
- Southwestern Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHWESTERN 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 SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY?
- SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,251,287 to it, the largest being CULLEN TRUST FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ($4,181,710). 74 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $31,251,287 in grants to SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, 74 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY?
- CULLEN TRUST FOR HIGHER EDUCATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,181,710 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 119 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