Tennessee · Nonprofit
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY (Tennessee) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,261,431 to it, the largest being DON WAGGONER & ZELMA WAGGONER FOUNDATION ($11,712,136). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Council of Independent Collegesshared fundersportfolio match
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universitiesportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 12% · 2022 15% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $195k → $5.4M.
18 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 71% · 2019 96% · 2020 57% · 2021 59% · 2022 95% · 2023 74% — 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
37% of TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 58 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Council of Independent Collegesshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 126 organizations that share your funders
- Council for Christian Colleges and Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R D Cundiff Scholarship Trust Dtd 10121portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enactusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James J & Mildred M Postma Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eagle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward L Schwab Memorial Foundation Dacotah Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated Colleges of Illinois Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alice Aber Smith Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jp Crain Family Scholarship Pfdn Paulding County Area Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.7M on record.
- Department of Education$10.4M
- Department of Agriculture$346k
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 TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Tennessee
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
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- 303 Murfreesboro Road LLC · disregarded
- 411 Woodycrest LLC · disregarded
- 195 Polk LLC · disregarded
- Tnoh Partners VI · partnership
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TREVECCA NAZARENE 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY?
- TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY (Tennessee) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,261,431 to it, the largest being DON WAGGONER & ZELMA WAGGONER FOUNDATION ($11,712,136). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $16,261,431 in grants to TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY?
- DON WAGGONER & ZELMA WAGGONER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,712,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TREVECCA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 58funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing