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WINGATE UNIVERSITY

WINGATE UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,426,959 to it, the largest being CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 ($4,117,928). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$178M
Funders on record
119
Grants received
$18M
Net assets
$209M
82/119 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Wingate University does

Mission

The mission of Wingate University is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. Following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Wingate University serves students on two campuses in wingate and hendersonville, nc. The university offers 40 undergraduate majors, 68 minors and career concentrations, numerous pre-professional programs, graduate degrees in business, accounting, education, physician assistant studies and sport management, and doctorates in pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and education. During the fiscal year ended may 31, 2025, fall student enrollment was 3,458 and spring student enrollment was 3,218. The total number of graduates was 864. Financial aid was received by 3,497 students. Scholarships were granted to 2,956 students.

    $142,807,114 spentof which $86,203,286 as grants$156,218,432 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $142,807,114.

02The 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 ($142M) Expenses 100 ($109M) Net assets 100 ($157M)2018 Revenue 98 ($139M) Expenses 119 ($130M) Net assets 107 ($167M)2019 Revenue 107 ($152M) Expenses 134 ($146M) Net assets 110 ($173M)2020 Revenue 106 ($151M) Expenses 141 ($154M) Net assets 109 ($172M)2021 Revenue 118 ($167M) Expenses 145 ($159M) Net assets 126 ($198M)2022 Revenue 123 ($175M) Expenses 150 ($164M) Net assets 124 ($194M)2023 Revenue 118 ($168M) Expenses 155 ($169M) Net assets 128 ($201M)2024 Revenue 116 ($164M) Expenses 157 ($171M) Net assets 130 ($204M)2025 Revenue 126 ($178M) Expenses 161 ($176M) Net assets 133 ($209M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (161)Net assets (133)Peer revenue range

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 $261M to $295M (+13%).

$213M
$237M
$265M
$261M
$295M
$289M
$295M
$296M
$300M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of WINGATE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$33M
’17
$8.6M
’18
$6.1M
’19
−$3.2M
’20
$8.8M
’21
$11M
’22
−$1.3M
’23
−$6.7M
’24
$2.3M
’25
0.7
months of
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

Shanta Dube

Chair and Director, Dept of Public Health

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed676570734647444645
Joined·+53+7+8+5+7+7+7+10
No longer listed·552532610511
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $732k → $4.1M.

19 of 119 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 WINGATE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 119 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

WINGATE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

27% 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 WINGATE UNIVERSITY.

22%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 33% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 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

35% of WINGATE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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

75% of WINGATE UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WINGATE UNIVERSITY's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding WINGATE UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18.4M on record.

Federal$18.4M
grants $18.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$18.4M
  • Department of Agriculture$11k

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 WINGATE 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & 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

34
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Wingate Real Estate Holdings LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY?
WINGATE UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 119 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,426,959 to it, the largest being CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 ($4,117,928). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WINGATE UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 119 organizations giving $18,426,959 in grants to WINGATE UNIVERSITY, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WINGATE UNIVERSITY?
CHARLES A CANNON TRUST NO 1 is the largest funder on record, with $4,117,928 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WINGATE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 119 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