Missouri · Nonprofit
William Jewell College
William Jewell College (Missouri) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,741,231 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($4,500,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 104
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $84M
What William Jewell College does
Mission
We educate our community to ask reflective questions, apply critical thought, and act with purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided instruction and academic support to approximately 1,100 students: classroom instruction, library services, lecture services, etc.
$28,205,372 spentof which $13,202,767 as grants$20,587,264 earned by the program62% of program spendingProvided room and board for 769 students in the fall of 2024 and 689 students in the spring of 2025. Provided student services and programming: athletics and intramural sports, student activities, health services, counseling services, financial services, academic records. Fine arts programming; leadership training; miscellaneous community programs.
$17,537,513 spent$10,006,344 earned by the program38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,742,885.
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 $130M to $119M (−8%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 6% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 11% · 2024 10% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of William Jewell College’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. 6 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
William C Gautreaux
Trustee/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 36 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $988k.
19 of 104 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.
From the IRS filings of William Jewell College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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 Jewell College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% 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 Jewell College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 73% · 2019 61% · 2020 81% · 2021 41% · 2022 37% · 2023 27% — 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 William Jewell College'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
William Jewell College draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.0M 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
William Jewell College receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $23M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding William Jewell College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.4M on record — $10.4M federal, $2k state.
- Department of Education$9.1M
- National Science Foundation$944k
- Department of Health and Human Services$330k
- National Endowment for the Arts$90k
- Scholarships-Students$2k
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 Jewell College
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Jewell Unlimited · disregarded
- Collegehill Investments Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for William Jewell College: 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 Jewell College?
- William Jewell College (Missouri) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,741,231 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($4,500,000). 59 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does William Jewell College have?
- IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $22,741,231 in grants to William Jewell College, 59 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of William Jewell College?
- THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like William Jewell College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 104 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