Washington · Nonprofit
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY (Washington) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,525,829 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,025,745). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $164M
- Funders on record
- 143
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $279M
What Whitworth University does
Mission
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: Whitworth University's enrollment (fall 2025): undergraduate: 2,046 graduate: 373. Six-year graduation rate (2024-25): 66.7 percent of first-time, full-time students enrolled in fall 2019 graduated within six years. Freshman-to-sophomore retention rate (2024-25): 83.6 percent. The university undergraduate student body has a composition of 64%/36% white/non-white; 56%/44% female/male and representation of 37 foreign nations. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 30 graduate degree programs, and 2 doctorate programs; the most prominent undergraduate degrees are business/economics, health science, education, psychology, biology, and math and computer science. Fiscal year 2024-25 is also the 24th consecutive year that Whitworth University has been in the top rankings of u.s. News and world report.
$111,381,447 spentof which $60,356,638 as grants$111,890,002 earned by the program95% of program spendingAuxiliary services: Whitworth University provides dining services to approximately 1,100 resident students (fall 2025) and to the many other students who live off campus. In fiscal year 2024-25, room and board services generated gross revenues of over $13 million, which helped support the academic and student services provided to the approximately 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students registered at the university.
$3,722,671 spent$5,989,336 earned by the program3% of program spendingStudent services: whitworth's residence halls, on-campus houses, and apartments accommodate approximately 1,000 students (fall 2025). Whitworth has a two-year residency requirement. The university offers 8 halls and 26 theme houses. Student clubs and organizations: whitworth has over 40 student clubs, ranging from amnesty international to the hawaiian club.
$2,668,164 spentof which $3,502,749 as grants$7,201,183 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,772,282.
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 2020 to 2021, from $335M to $388M (+16%).
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 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Brian Kirkpatrick
Trustee, chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $6.8M.
28 of 143 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $9.4M from 12 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Whitworth Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 143 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
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
37% 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 WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 27% · 2019 28% · 2020 16% · 2021 22% · 2022 24% · 2023 37% — 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
57% of WHITWORTH 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
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 28 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.3M on record — $19.3M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Education$15.4M
- National Science Foundation$3.9M
- Department of the Interior$27k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$4k
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 WHITWORTH 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Whitworth Foundation · exempt
- Employer Contribution Veba Trust Whitworth University · exempt
- Employee Contribution Veba Trust Whitworth University · exempt
- Whitworth Costa Rica Limitada · corp_trust
- Charity Remainder Unitrusts (20) · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WHITWORTH 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 WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY?
- WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY (Washington) receives grants from 143 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,525,829 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($8,025,745). 91 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 143 organizations giving $32,525,829 in grants to WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY, 91 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,025,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITWORTH 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 143 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