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LINCOLN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

EIN 37-0711798 LINCOLN, IL

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Revenue 2024
$788,445
Expenses 2024
$5,777,151

Program services were 97.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B40
Classification
2700
Street
100 CAMPUS VIEW DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

LINCOLN CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE EXISTS TO EDUCATE, EQUIP, AND ENCOURAGE CHURCHES AND THOSE WHO LEAD THEM.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EDUCATE, EQUIP, AND ENCOURAGE CHURCHES AND THOSE WHO LEAD THEM.

  • PROGRAM VISION: TO SERVE AS A TRUSTED RESOURCE FOR HEALTHY CHURCHES AND MATURE CHURCH LEADERS WHO ARE SPREADING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. AVERAGE NUMBER IN THE COURSES WAS 15.

    Expenses $5,629,322 · Grants $5,244,194 · Revenue $270,016

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Brett Anderson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jennifer Armstrong

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Darryl Bolen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Karen Diefendorf

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Warren Knoles

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Roger Clark

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Silas McCormick

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $90,625
    From this org
    $90,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $788,445
    Expenses
    $5,777,151
    Contributions
    $425,845
    Grants paid
    $5,244,194
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,120,965
    Expenses
    $4,413,031
    Contributions
    $1,682,063
    Grants paid
    $469,275
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $800,941
    Expenses
    $5,144,101
    Contributions
    $1,989,636
    Grants paid
    $533,626

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,063,987
    Expenses
    $11,549,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,403,234

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,835,364
    Expenses
    $10,786,456
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,402,517

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,602,894
    Expenses
    $11,174,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,178,159

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,886,235
    Expenses
    $11,834,828
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,493,516

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,466,032
    Expenses
    $12,069,032
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,274,671

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,592,800
    Expenses
    $11,937,161
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,849,221

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,599,213
    Expenses
    $12,989,748
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,613,920

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,302,818
    Expenses
    $14,062,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,030,464

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,975,298
    Expenses
    $15,220,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,371,700

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $15,645,951
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,056,206

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • OZARK CHRISTIAN COLLEGE

    $5,022,859

    2024 DURING 2025, A GIFT OF THE LINCOLN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY'S ENDOWMENT WAS PROVIDED TO OZARK CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, A SEMINARY SCHOOL LOCATED IN JOPLIN, MISSOURI.

  • ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY

    $0

    2024 DURING 2025, A GIFT OF THE LINCOLN CHRISTIAN SEMINARY RARE BOOK COLLECTION WAS PROVIDED TO ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY LOCATED IN ABILENE, TEXAS.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.