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WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY

WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,232,065 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$6.2M
Net assets
$13M
4/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 95%
01What it does

What World Mission University does

Mission

An evangelical educational institution, exists to equip bible-centered, mission-minded laeders for the church and the world.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. World Mission University offers religious study programs as a post secondary education institution.

    $1,660,908 spent
    96% of program spending
  2. World Mission University offers religious study programs as a post secondary education institution.

    $67,469 spent
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,728,377.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 101 ($2.2M) Expenses 102 ($2.1M) Net assets 102 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 111 ($2.4M) Expenses 111 ($2.3M) Net assets 104 ($5.9M)2022 Revenue 107 ($2.4M) Expenses 108 ($2.2M) Net assets 130 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 179 ($3.9M) Expenses 126 ($2.6M) Net assets 154 ($8.7M)2024 Revenue 350 ($7.7M) Expenses 196 ($4.1M) Net assets 221 ($12M)2025 Revenue 167 ($3.7M) Expenses 153 ($3.2M) Net assets 230 ($13M)
2018201920202022202320242025
Revenue (167)Expenses (153)Net assets (230)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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $14M (+34%).

$7.8M
$7.9M
$8.4M
$9.4M
$11M
$14M
$14M
2018201920202022202320242025
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.

2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

13% of WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$126k
’18
$96k
’19
$148k
’20
$125k
’22
$1.3M
’23
$3.6M
’24
$505k
’25
32
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.

2018201920202022202320242025
Listed1212129999
Joined·+0+0·+0+0+0
No longer listed·00·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $3k → $3.8M.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — 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

20% of WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.

IN
CA
VA
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve32.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $857k on record.

Federal$857k
grants $857kcontracts $0
20
21
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$857k

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 WORLD MISSION 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 46%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
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

CA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WORLD MISSION 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 WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY?
WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,232,065 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($6,100,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $6,232,065 in grants to WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WORLD MISSION UNIVERSITY?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WORLD MISSION 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.

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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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