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TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,077,293 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,979,700). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $113M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $25M
- Net assets
- $175M
What Texas Wesleyan University does
Mission
Texas Wesleyan University, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the world community. (continued on sch o)
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Texas Wesleyan University was founded by the methodist episcopal church in 1890 and is the longest serving higher education institution in fort worth, led by president emily messer. Texas Wesleyan University launched a new strategic plan in 2021 called engage 2025. The new strategic plan focuses on engage in learning, engage in community and engage in leadership. Texas Wesleyan University offers undergraduate degrees in the schools of arts and sciences, business and education. Additionally, the university offers graduate degrees in the schools of business, education and health professions. The university has launched several online graduate programs within the past several years. The university also offers an honors curriculum and a pre-health science program. Endowed funds support scholarships, speaker series and many academic programs beyond the classroom. Official enrollment for the fall 2024 term include 1,839 undergraduate and 693 graduate and doctoral students for a total enrollment of 2,532.
$60,997,394 spentof which $47,927,681 as grants$89,919,085 earned by the program63% of program spendingStudent services and academic support: career services provides academic support services through programming, classroom engagement, job/intern placement opportunities, and individual counseling appointments. Programming includes events focused on professional development including business etiquette, digital networking platforms, interview strategies, and graduate school preparation. Placement opportunities are available through student employment fair, graduate school fair, career fair, and individual academic program showcases such as counseling graduate student career fair. Career services conducted 274 career consultations in 2024-2025 addressing topics such as graduate school, typology assessments, job search, internship counseling, major advising, mock interviews, resume reviews, and other career related matters. Orientation and new student experiences conducted 19 registration dates with 926 attendees for 2024-2025. The office of the dean of students addresses matters concerning alleged misconduct, crisis intervention, and conflict resolution. Proactive educational initiatives include programming for sexual assault awareness month, domestic violence awareness month, and…
$30,014,591 spent31% of program spendingHousing and residence life: the university offers traditional, suite-style, and apartment style halls on-campus with over 500 residents in fall 2024. Residence life staff focuses on regular one-on-one interactions with each resident focused on building relationships, stimulating community, and helping each resident find success at texas wesleyan. Residence life hosts programs in the residence halls that help students develop in the areas of healthy living, multicultural competence, global citizenship, leadership development, professional development, and educational exploration. Programming in the halls is based on current student needs.
$5,809,276 spentof which $60,938 as grants$3,746,629 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $96,821,261.
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 $152M to $171M (+12%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 8% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of TEXAS WESLEYAN 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. 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
Glenn O Lewis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $2.2M.
13 of 86 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 TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
32% 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 TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 45% · 2019 20% · 2020 23% · 2021 44% · 2022 41% · 2023 17% — 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
51% of TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
84% of TEXAS WESLEYAN 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. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.4M on record.
- Department of Education$26.8M
- National Science Foundation$652k
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 TEXAS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Charitable Trust (7) · corp_trust
- Charitable Trust (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Trust (2) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEXAS 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 TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,077,293 to it, the largest being RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($4,979,700). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $25,077,293 in grants to TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY?
- RAINWATER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,979,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS WESLEYAN 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 86 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