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WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY

WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY (Missouri) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,092 to it, the largest being The Lucille and Bruce Lambert Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,320,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$50M
Revenue FY2025
48
Funders on record
$3.6M
Grants received
$29M
Net assets
29/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($35M) Expenses 100 ($36M) Net assets 100 ($46M)2018 Revenue 100 ($35M) Expenses 103 ($37M) Net assets 97 ($44M)2019 Revenue 106 ($37M) Expenses 103 ($37M) Net assets 97 ($44M)2020 Revenue 103 ($36M) Expenses 98 ($36M) Net assets 96 ($44M)2021 Revenue 104 ($36M) Expenses 92 ($33M) Net assets 112 ($51M)2022 Revenue 107 ($37M) Expenses 96 ($35M) Net assets 108 ($50M)2023 Revenue 92 ($32M) Expenses 105 ($38M) Net assets 96 ($44M)2024 Revenue 111 ($39M) Expenses 128 ($47M) Net assets 81 ($37M)2025 Revenue 143 ($50M) Expenses 154 ($56M) Net assets 62 ($29M)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (154)Net assets (62)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 11% · 2021 6% · 2022 20% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

3% of WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
17
$2.3M
18
$353k
19
$213k
20
$2.9M
21
$2.6M
22
$6.0M
23
$7.8M
24
$5.9M
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $80k → $460k.

11 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)47% 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 WOODS UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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 WOODS UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 WOODS UNIVERSITY.

37%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 61% · 2019 88% · 2020 82% · 2021 73% · 2022 56% · 2023 66%growing more concentrated.

“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

64% of WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 WOODS UNIVERSITY draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 15 states in all.

IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
PA
MO
KY
VA
KS
AR
TN
OK
AL
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 48 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record — $5.0M federal, $2k state.

Federal$5.0M
grants $5.0Mcontracts $0
20
21
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$5.0M
State$2k
05
19
By state
  • OR$1k
  • NJ$450

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 WOODS UNIVERSITY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Missouri

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILLIAM WOODS 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 WOODS UNIVERSITY?
WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY (Missouri) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,567,092 to it, the largest being The Lucille and Bruce Lambert Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,320,500). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $3,567,092 in grants to WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY?
The Lucille and Bruce Lambert Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,320,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY 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.

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 48funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing