California · Nonprofit
WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY
WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,026,124 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,515,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $23M
What William Jessup University does
Mission
In partnership with the church, the purpose of William Jessup University is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Traditional & degree completion: jessup enrolls nearly 1,000 students in its undergraduate and degree completion programs with an integrated biblical foundation in each program. Each undergraduate program is founded on a solid liberal arts core and intentionally designed to foster a student's spiritual development. With 28 traditional and degree completion programs, jessup has a variety of concentrations and specializations from which students may choose. Jessup's degree completion programs are customized to serve working adult students in a course of study that is convenient, flexible, and relevant to their personal and professional goals. (continued on schedule o)accelerated courses are offered remotely in a synchronous format. The degree completion pedagogy is built to serve high-context adult learners who bring a wide range of work and life skills, gifts, and abilities into the classroom. Experiential and co-curricular learning opportunities are a hallmark of the traditional undergraduate programs as our internship opportunities and work preparedness courses assist students in school-to-work transitions. Majors include business, child develpment, psychology, criminal justice,…
$71,477,155 spentof which $20,610,339 as grants$48,761,606 earned by the program97% of program spendingGraduate education: jessup offers a growing array of high quality graduate degrees, each designed to offer an advanced-level educational experience taught by highly qualified faculty who share personal concern for each student's spiritual development and personal well-being. Current offerings serve over 350 students and include a ma of accountancy, ma in teaching, ma in education, mba, an international mba, ms in computer science, ma in counseling psychology, ma in leadership, and a ms in kinesiology. We have also added, through our mulnomah campus, degrees including a ma of divinity, ma of biblical studies, ma of global development and justice, and a doctor of ministry degree. (continued on schedule o)jessup is selectively building high-quality graduate degrees that serve student interests and marketplace demands based on the core academic strengths of its programs and faculty. Both thesis-based and professional degree programs provide opportunities for critical thinking, speaking, and writing with the goal of preparing knowledgeable and highly qualified graduates who may pursue additional graduate study and/or professional careers. Internship opportunities and experiential…
$1,554,404 spentof which $379,443 as grants$5,029,371 earned by the program2% of program spendingOnline education:the growth of online options and programs now includes students across all degree platforms, as jessup serves over 1200 students online, with nearly 250 participating in 10 fully online degree programs. Undergraduate online degrees include business, bible and theology, computer science, criminal justice, health care administration, leadership, psychology, and applied professional studies.(continued on schedule o)graduate online degrees include: master of counseling psychology (remote synchronous), master of science in kinesiology, master of business administration, master of arts in leadership, master of arts in education, master of science in management and leadership, and master of accountancy (remote synchronous). Online degrees provide flexible learning platforms that allow students who work to access faculty and curriculum in a convenient format. Similarly, library resources and student support services are also accessible online. Finally, both jessup's undergraduate and graduate degrees have the same graduation requirements and share faculty with the on-ground degrees.
$537,706 spentof which $269,495 as grants$1,819,273 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $73,569,265.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $156M to $130M (−17%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 3% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Bonnie Gore
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $187k → $2.4M.
18 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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: $13M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Multnomah University). These are real filings, and they are not money WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 43% · 2019 77% · 2020 55% · 2021 35% · 2022 51% · 2023 42% — 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
59% of WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
62% of WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY'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 $4.6M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.7M on record.
- Department of Education$8.4M
- Department of Transportation$304k
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 WILLIAM JESSUP 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Jessup Foundation Inc · exempt
- Jessup Global · exempt
- Irrevocable Perpetual Trusts (2) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILLIAM JESSUP 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 WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY?
- WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,026,124 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,515,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $12,026,124 in grants to WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 67 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