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WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,154,184 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($6,639,238). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $8.2M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Wilberforce University Wilberforce University does
Mission
Wilberforce university is a historically black college and university and the primary mission is to engage, support, and assist students in identifying and preparing for their respective purposes in life as social change agents, social justice activists, entrepreneurs, thought-leaders and global citizens by imparting knowledge through rigorous intellectual inquiry and critical thinking. The mission is most effectively accomplished by instilling pride, discipline and inspiring life-long learning, personal and spiritual development and the practical application of the knowledge obtained, and the skills developed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide a post-secondary education to the students of wilberforce university.
$16,118,563 spent99% of program spendingThe univesity provides post secondary education to minority students from various parts of the uninted states.
$238,639 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,357,202.
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 2023 to 2024, from $26M to $30M (+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 21% · 2018 13% · 2019 21% · 2020 47% · 2021 23% · 2022 59% · 2023 64% · 2024 34% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Nate Jenkins
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $790k → $925k.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 94% · 2019 81% · 2020 71% · 2021 91% · 2022 79% · 2023 77% — 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
44% of WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $498k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45.7M on record.
- Department of Education$42.9M
- Department of Commerce$2.1M
- Department of the Interior$790k
- Environmental Protection Agency$5k
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 WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE 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 WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY?
- WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,154,184 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($6,639,238). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $8,154,184 in grants to WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY?
- UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,639,238 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 38 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