Nebraska · Nonprofit
UNION COLLEGE
UNION COLLEGE (Nebraska) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,209,848 to it, the largest being Greater Salina Community Foundation ($654,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $74M
What Union College does
Mission
Union College is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional & public service: Union College provides an exceptional liberal arts education with 669 undergraduate students and 88 master's level students. The 10 to 1 student teacher ratio allows for excellent student/teacher interaction. Union College offers more than 60 majors, minors, and emphases in 29 fields of study including bachelor's degrees in religion, business, education, nursing, english, and international rescue & relief, as well as a master's degree in physician assistant studies.
$18,081,690 spentof which $5,488,823 as grants$17,293,977 earned by the program63% of program spendingAcademic support & student services: academic support includes the library, academic administration, institutional research, and academic institutional technology. Student services supports students through counseling, records office, admissions and other student support.
$6,592,637 spent$1,817,271 earned by the program23% of program spendingAuxiliary services: auxiliary services at Union College exist to furnish goods or services to students, faculty, staff, institutional departments and the public. The most prominent of these services provide support to our students and include residence halls, bookstore, and campus housing.
$3,965,545 spent$1,757,031 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,639,872.
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 2024 to 2025, from $66M to $82M (+24%).
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 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 8% · 2022 16% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of UNION COLLEGE’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. 2 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
Gary Thurber
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $151k → $324k.
9 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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: $16M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNION COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNION COLLEGE’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.
How concentrated its funding is
UNION COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 UNION COLLEGE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 52% · 2019 63% · 2020 55% · 2021 29% · 2022 32% · 2023 48% — 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
50% of UNION COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
67% of UNION COLLEGE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $731k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Nebraska, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
UNION COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding UNION COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.5M on record.
- Department of Education$6.5M
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 UNION 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Mid-America Union Conference Association of Seventh-Day Adventists · exempt
- Midwest Foundation for Higher Education · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (2) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (1) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION COLLEGE: 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 UNION COLLEGE?
- UNION COLLEGE (Nebraska) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,209,848 to it, the largest being Greater Salina Community Foundation ($654,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNION COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,209,848 in grants to UNION COLLEGE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNION COLLEGE?
- Greater Salina Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $654,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNION COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 28 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