Washington · Nonprofit
WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY
WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY (Washington) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,015,966 to it, the largest being WINIFRED STEVENS FOUNDATION ($2,157,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $138M
What Walla Walla University does
Mission
The university seeks to impart a broad knowledge of the arts, sciences and professions by careful instruction and open inquiry and to translate academic achievement into responsible citizenship and generous service to others.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Post-secondary education of approximately 1800 students. Liberal arts, science and professional instructional programs to both bachelor's and master's degrees.
$58,138,531 spentof which $21,789,630 as grants$48,413,038 earned by the program90% of program spendingDormitory and other housing facilities for students and other auxiliary operations.
$6,449,367 spent$8,283,721 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $64,587,898.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $131M to $147M (+13%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of WALLA WALLA 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 6 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
John Freedman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $166k → $833k.
13 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $6.5M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Adventist Health SystemWest). These are real filings, and they are not money WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of WALLA WALLA 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
WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
38% 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 WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 89% · 2019 53% · 2020 36% · 2021 24% · 2022 29% · 2023 43% — 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
36% of WALLA WALLA 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
WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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
WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.9M on record.
- Department of Education$7.5M
- National Science Foundation$353k
- Department of the Interior$47k
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 WALLA WALLA 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WALLA WALLA 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 WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY?
- WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY (Washington) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,015,966 to it, the largest being WINIFRED STEVENS FOUNDATION ($2,157,500). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $6,015,966 in grants to WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY?
- WINIFRED STEVENS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,157,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 58 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