Missouri · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC
UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($325,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $575k
- Net assets
- $3k
What University Venture Program - Crossroads Inc does
Mission
University Venture Fund Crossroads charitable purpose is to educate college and graduate students in entrepreneurship and private finance including providing students with scholarships and further providing students with the opportunity to to participate in the investment process while in an educational setting.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The organization provided scholarship dollars to twenty-seven college students to defray the costs of their higher educations.
$0 spentof which $16,930 as grants0% of program spendingThe organization provided more than 1,300 of classroom instruction, 18 hours of symposia and conferences, and 500 hours of community service to our entrepreneurial partners throughout the Midwest
$148,024 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $148,024.
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 2021 to 2022, from $143k to $35k (−76%).
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.
100% of UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Brooks
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250k → $125k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC’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
UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
57% of UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC'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 $250k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC's revenue fell 40% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC?
- UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $574,500 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($325,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $574,500 in grants to UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY VENTURE PROGRAM - CROSSROADS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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