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Tabor College

Tabor College (Kansas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,955,830 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$35M
Funders on record
44
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$56M
23/44 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Tabor College does

Mission

Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tabor College, inc. Is a four-year christian liberal arts college founded in 1908 and accredited by the higher learning commission. The college has an enrollment of approximately 600 students on its 80-acre campus in hillsboro, kansas and select programs offered through online courses. Tabor offers 29 bachelor's degree programs, four master's degree programs and dual credit for high school students. Tabor offers 19 varsity sports, many competing at the national level, 20 student-led organizations, and many fine arts opportunities. Students represent 38 states and 15 countries on tabor's campus. Tabor also creates and provides programs that serve the mission of Tabor College at sites in the united states and abroad. These rich programs are characterized by the integration of faith and learning through experiential education.

    $29,196,482 spentof which $13,804,591 as grants$23,440,139 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,196,482.

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 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($23M) Net assets 100 ($36M)2018 Revenue 96 ($25M) Expenses 107 ($24M) Net assets 101 ($36M)2019 Revenue 102 ($26M) Expenses 110 ($25M) Net assets 106 ($38M)2020 Revenue 91 ($23M) Expenses 105 ($24M) Net assets 104 ($37M)2021 Revenue 113 ($29M) Expenses 121 ($27M) Net assets 112 ($40M)2022 Revenue 137 ($35M) Expenses 134 ($31M) Net assets 118 ($42M)2023 Revenue 136 ($35M) Expenses 124 ($28M) Net assets 140 ($50M)2024 Revenue 121 ($31M) Expenses 135 ($31M) Net assets 143 ($51M)2025 Revenue 139 ($35M) Expenses 134 ($30M) Net assets 158 ($56M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (134)Net assets (158)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 2022 to 2023, from $51M to $59M (+15%).

$44M
$45M
$46M
$47M
$50M
$51M
$59M
$60M
$66M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

29% of Tabor College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.8M
’17
$180k
’18
$1.0M
’19
−$678k
’20
$1.4M
’21
$4.4M
’22
$6.5M
’23
$205k
’24
$5.0M
’25
0.7
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.

Board chair

Susan Koslowsky

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed282729273031273328
Joined·+3+8+2+5+4+5+8+5
No longer listed·464239210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $58k → $2.7M.

9 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Tabor College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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

Tabor College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

50%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 31% · 2019 48% · 2020 87% · 2021 54% · 2022 77% · 2023 93% — 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

29% of Tabor College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Tabor College draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 12 states in all.

MN
NY
IN
CT
RI
MO
NM
KS
DC
OK
TX
FL

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

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’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Tabor College runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding Tabor College receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.0M on record.

Federal$6.0M
grants $6.0Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$3.0M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.9M
  • Department of Agriculture$90k

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 Tabor College

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 Kansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Kansas Independent College Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Tabor College?
Tabor College (Kansas) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,955,830 to it, the largest being JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC ($2,500,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Tabor College have?
IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $4,955,830 in grants to Tabor College, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Tabor College?
JE AND LE MABEE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Tabor College find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 44 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