Nonprofit
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,209 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($34,209). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $100M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $176M
What Trinity Western University does
Mission
Trinity Western University's mission is to produce positive, goal-oriented graduates with thoroughly Christian minds-growing disciples of Jesus Christ who glorify God through fulfilling the Great Commission, serving God and people in various marketplaces of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
University Educational Programming - Founded in 1962, Trinity Western University is a global Christian liberal arts university. We are dedicated to equipping students to discover meaningful connections between career, life, and the needs of the world. Drawing upon the riches of the Christian tradition, seeking to unite faith and reason through teaching and scholarship, Trinity Western University is a degree-granting research institution offering liberal arts and sciences as well as professional schools in business, nursing, education, human kinetics, graduate studies, and arts, media, and culture. It has four locations in Canada: Langley, Richmond-Lansdowne, Richmond-Minoru, and Ottawa.
$90,846,612 spentof which $9,900,914 as grants$100,066,113 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $90,846,612.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $5.6M to $230M (+3977%).
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: 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Matthew St John
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Against its field
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like TRINITY WESTERN 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.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Trinity Western University Foundation (TWUF) · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRINITY WESTERN 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 TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY?
- TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,209 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($34,209). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,209 in grants to TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY.
- Who is the largest funder of TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $34,209 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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