- Revenue 2024
- $27,445,151
- Expenses 2024
- $31,694,106
Program services were 83.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B30
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- 1 UNIVERSITY PL
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
CHOWAN UNIVERSITY IS A COMPREHENSIVE COEDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, LEARNING, SCHOLARLY INQUIRY, AND SERVICE. THE UNIVERSITY PROVIDES THE ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS TO BECOME LEARNERS WHO POSSESS THE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, CREATIVITY, AND ETHICAL VALUES NECESSARY TO SURVIVE AND FLOURISH IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING, CULTURALLY DIVERSE, GLOBAL SOCIETY. CHOWAN UNIVERSITY, AS A CHRISTIAN INSTITUTION, WAS FOUNDED UPON AND IS DEDICATED TO JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES. CONSISTENT WITH THIS HERITAGE, THE UNIVERSITY IS GUIDED BY THE HISTORIC PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, THE DIGNITY AND WORTH OF EACH INDIVIDUAL, AN ATMOSPHERE OF OPEN DIALOGUE, FREEDOM OF INQUIRY AND EXPRESSION, AND A MORAL COMMITMENT TO THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH.
Activities or mission (Part I)
INSTITUTION OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION PROVIDING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE CURRICULUMS.
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CHOWAN UNIVERSITY IS A COMPREHENSIVE, COEDUCATIONAL, RESIDENTIAL UNIVERSITY WITH BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PROGRAMS. THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS A VARIETY OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS WITH A LIBERAL ARTS BASIS IN CAREER-ORIENTED FIELDS SUCH AS BUSINESS, TEACHER EDUCATION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, ETC. IN ALL, THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS DEGREES IN 20 PROGRAMS. STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN, AND ARE EXPOSED TO, VARIOUS CULTURAL ARTS PROGRAMS AND EVENTS. THEY ARE ALSO ENCOURAGED TO BE INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS. THE UNIVERSITY OFFERS VARIOUS STYLES OF STUDENT HOUSING FOR RESIDENTIAL STUDENTS. RESIDENTIAL STUDENTS RECEIVE TRAINING AND PROGRAMMING FROM THE RESIDENCE LIFE STAFF. ATHLETIC AND INTRAMURAL PARTICIPATION IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT COMPONENT IN THE LEARNING AND EDUCATION EXPERIENCE. DURING FALL 2024, THE UNIVERSITY SERVED APPROXIMATELY 583 STUDENTS IN ITS TRADITIONAL UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM, WITH 512 STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SPRING 2025. THE GRADUATE PROGRAM HAD 72 STUDENTS IN FALL 2024 AND 71 IN SPRING 2025. AMONG THESE, 565 STUDENTS WERE RESIDENTIAL IN FALL 2024, AND 489 IN SPRING 2025. ADDITIONALLY, THE UNIVERSITY ENROLLED AROUND 7 STUDENTS IN THE UNDERGRADUATE ADULT DEGREE PROGRAM FOR FALL 2024 AND 6 IN SPRING 2025. THE UNDERGRADUATE RESIDENCY PROGRAM, DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS OBTAINING THEIR TEACHING LICENSE, HAD 13 PARTICIPANTS IN FALL 2024 AND 6 IN SPRING 2025. OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, APPROXIMATELY 159 STUDENTS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THEIR PROGRAM STUDIES.
Expenses $26,486,257 · Grants $10,131,978 · Revenue $21,762,409
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.
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AUSTINE O EVANS
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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CECIL S HOLLOMON JR
BOARD VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BARRY E WHITAKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BETTY JO SHEPHEARD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BILLY R HOWELL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BLAKE BLYTHE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CARLYLE WIMBISH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHARLES B POND III
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELAINE E MYERS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
FREDDIE DAVIS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GARRY WHITAKER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GRACE G BROWN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HAROLD W BABB
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HARVEY W REINHARDT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HUGH BUTCH WILSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAMES M EASON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAMES T JOHNSON JR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAMES W MASON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JANE B BURKE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JANE E NEWSOME
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JESSE E VAUGHAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JESSICA K DRAKE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JULIAN R MILLS SR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JULIUS SMITH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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LINDA B WEAVER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
The first 25 listed. 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
- $27,445,151
- Expenses
- $31,694,106
- Contributions
- $4,137,774
- Grants paid
- $10,131,978
-
2023
- Revenue
- $29,555,769
- Expenses
- $32,745,660
- Contributions
- $5,468,611
- Grants paid
- $10,329,295
-
2022
- Revenue
- $36,112,157
- Expenses
- $40,244,568
- Contributions
- $8,251,003
- Grants paid
- $12,238,037
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
- $40,741,279
- Expenses
- $38,994,279
- Assets (EOY)
- $92,478,442
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $45,020,286
- Expenses
- $41,850,270
- Assets (EOY)
- $98,045,525
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $49,848,221
- Expenses
- $44,788,263
- Assets (EOY)
- $91,084,339
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $48,147,553
- Expenses
- $45,726,537
- Assets (EOY)
- $82,623,389
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $50,511,181
- Expenses
- $45,763,816
- Assets (EOY)
- $80,133,929
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $44,120,794
- Expenses
- $42,611,394
- Assets (EOY)
- $77,514,008
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $45,405,526
- Expenses
- $39,811,047
- Assets (EOY)
- $64,800,407
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $40,164,507
- Expenses
- $35,715,454
- Assets (EOY)
- $60,365,472
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $33,251,221
- Assets (EOY)
- $56,997,387
-
2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $30,543,199
- Assets (EOY)
- $51,689,534
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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
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LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
$260,000
2023 For general scholarship support.
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LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
$260,000
2024 For general scholarship support.
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LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
$240,000
2022 For general scholarship support.
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2024 TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATION'S STATED MISSION
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2023 PRIVATE COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES - SCHOLARSHIPS
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2022 EDUCATION
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2022 PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS
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2023 PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS
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2023 Grants
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2024 Grants
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Related organizations
From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.
Declared as related by
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LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
On its 2024 return
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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.