Oregon · Nonprofit
WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,952,733 to it, the largest being OREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ($981,686). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Warner Pacific University does
Mission
Warner pacific is a christ-centered urban liberal arts university dedicated to providing students from diverse backgrounds an education that prepares them to engage actively in a constantly changing world. Warner Pacific University is accredited by the northwest commission on colleges and universities. Founded in 1937, today wpu offers a four-year christian liberal arts education in an urban setting on beautiful mt. Tabor in portland, oregon. Our christ-centered, liberal arts approach invites students to seek answers to difficult questions and challenges them to expand their comfort zones in order to explore the ways in which they understand society, community, and faith. Faculty guide classes through real-world situations in programs frombusiness to education, nursing, criminal justice, health science and many other degrees. At Warner Pacific University, students discover their passions, develop their skills, and serve the greater community. Most students qualify for financial aid.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Warner Pacific University is dedicated to seeing individuals, families, and communities flourish. As an urban university designed to serve students from diverse backgrounds, we know that for a city to flourish, its leaders must be prepared to engage actively in a constantly changing world. At warner pacific, 64% of students come from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds and 49% of students are the first in their family to attend college. Through various academic programs, as well as a humanities core curriculum, Warner Pacific University prepares students to become engaged citizens through career-focused liberal arts programs. A student-to-faculty ratio of 15:1 ensures that professors are committed to guiding students as they develop an ethical perspective that integrates their belief system to their chosen area of study. Through professional and graduate studies, Warner Pacific University also provides adult learners a convenient, personalized, and affordable degree program available one night a week or online.
$9,713,363 spentof which $2,186,752 as grants$12,651,638 earned by the program62% of program spendingResidence life at Warner Pacific University is committed to cultivating a responsible living and learning environment where holistic growth takes places through dynamic relationships. Our facilities include two residence halls and a variety of apartments and houses spread across our mt. Tabor campus. Our staff provides community building programming that connects students to each other and the broader campus community. The student dining experience centers on gathering with others, culinary expertise, fresh ingredients, healthy options, and a shared sense of environmental and social responsibility.
$3,762,985 spent$1,036,161 earned by the program24% of program spendingWarner Pacific University continues to be recognized for diversity and value. It is the most diverse university in oregon, and the only christian university with a minority-serving mission in the pacific northwest. Wpu was oregon's first four-year school to earn the prestigious hispanic-serving institution (hsi) designation from the u.s. Department of education, and also attained the prestigious federal designation of asian american, native american pacific islander-serving institution (aanapasi). The university has also received acclaimed rankings by the u.s. News & world report's best colleges in the regional west 2026 edition; earning #1 as top performer in social mobility; #7 in overall best value; and #6 (out of 97) in overall regional colleges in the west. We are particularly proud of the ranking in the social mobility category as it recognizes that economically disadvantaged students are less likely than others to finish college, even when controlling for other characteristics. Because of our role in serving as a pathway to success for minority and first-generation students, in the 2023-2024 school year wpu was chosen to receive a historic title v grant by the u.s.…
$1,354,438 spent$603,926 earned by the program9% of program spendingIn the 2019-2020 school year, the university piloted a new book program that provided new traditional students, both freshmen and transfers, automatic enrollment in a digital/rental book program for a standard per credit hour fee. The program ensured that students received their books on-campus during the weekend before classes started each semester. Beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, this program was rolled out to all traditional students and the cost of books was incorporated into the cost of tuition providing this program to students at no additional cost. Beginning in the 2024-2025 school year this was expanded to include all students at Warner Pacific University.
$733,624 spent$333,546 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,564,410.
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 2022 to 2023, from $31M to $28M (−10%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 16% · 2023 6% · 2024 14% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of WARNER PACIFIC 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. 8 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
Michael Moreland
Trustee chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $70k → $246k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WARNER PACIFIC 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.
How concentrated its funding is
WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
53% 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 WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 54% · 2019 60% · 2020 64% · 2021 56% · 2022 65% · 2023 56% — diversifying over time.
“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
41% of WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
87% of WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record — $6.8M federal, $4.6M state.
- Department of Education$6.8M
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$4.5M
- OTHER SPECIAL PAYMENTS$41k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$25k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$17k
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 WARNER PACIFIC 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trust (13) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY (Oregon) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,952,733 to it, the largest being OREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ($981,686). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,952,733 in grants to WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY?
- OREGON ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES is the largest funder on record, with $981,686 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WARNER PACIFIC UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 24 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