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HERITAGE UNIVERSITY

EIN 91-1160585 TOPPENISH, WA

Revenue 2024
$45,985,331
Expenses 2024
$34,788,759

Program services were 69.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B430
Classification
2000
Street
3240 FORT RD

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

HERITAGE UNIVERSITY EMPOWERS A MULTI-CULTURAL AND INCLUSIVE STUDENT BODY TO OVERCOME THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC, AND GEOGRAPHIC BARRIERS THAT LIMIT ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION. ROOTED IN THE HOMELAND OF THE YAKAMA NATION, WE EMBRACE TRANSFORMATIONAL STUDENT-CENTERED EDUCATION THAT CULTIVATES LEADERSHIP AND A COMMITMENT TO THE PROMOTION OF A MORE JUST SOCIETY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

HERITAGE UNIVERSITY IS A NON-PROFIT, INDEPENDENT, NON-DENOMINATIONAL ACCREDITED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION OFFERING UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE EDUCATION. ITS MISSION IS TO PROVIDE QUALITY, ACCESSIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION TO MULTICULTURAL POPULATIONS, WHICH HAVE BEEN UNDERSERVED IN THE YAKIMA VALLEY.

  • 1. TO PROVIDE CLASSROOM, FACULTY AND SERVICES TO ALL HERITAGE STUDENTS, PREDOMINANTLY MINORITY UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS, WHO ARE LIVING IN AN ISOLATED LOCATION AT OR BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY GUIDELINES. 2. TO PROVIDE STUDENTS WITH SERVICES INCLUDING FINANCIAL AID ASSISTANCE, COUNSELING, INTERNSHIPS, JOB PLACEMENT, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND GRANTS.3. ACADEMIC SUPPORT INCLUDING STUDENT SUPPORT AND ACCESS TO LEARNING RESOURCES, AND RECORD MAINTENANCE.

    Expenses $24,023,151 · Grants $4,970,923 · Revenue $30,260,572

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • ANDREW SUND

    HERITAGE PRESIDENT (THRU 6/25)

    Total calculated
    $359,318
    From this org
    $326,150
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,168
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $281,750
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $44,400
    Deferred
    $22,830
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,338
    Filer's total
    $359,318

  • BOB GERST

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SAUNDRA HILL

    1ST VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GERARDO RUELAS

    2ND VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK OSHIE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS LAWRENCE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHLEEN C HILTON

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX VERA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALLISON PARKER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LINDA KAMINSKI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELIZABETH MENDOZA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HENRY STROM

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ELLEN WALLACH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN FRAIRE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIP RAMSEY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LIN MACMASTER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORI ARVISO ALVORD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICHOLE MAHER

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ROY SIMMS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MAXINE JANIS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHELLE GONZALEZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIMI GARDNER GATES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CONNIE FALCON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL CHILES

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEREK RED ARROW FRANK

    BOARD MEMBER

    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $45,985,331
    Expenses
    $34,788,759
    Contributions
    $13,028,312
    Grants paid
    $4,970,923
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $31,979,056
    Expenses
    $29,276,334
    Contributions
    $5,787,703
    Grants paid
    $3,684,952
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $31,975,643
    Expenses
    $29,316,058
    Contributions
    $6,109,368
    Grants paid
    $3,540,553
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $31,129,982
    Expenses
    $28,378,099
    Contributions
    $3,030,844
    Grants paid
    $4,708,433

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
    $32,176,102
    Expenses
    $28,864,019
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,026,305

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $36,946,289
    Expenses
    $26,887,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,456,151

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $25,248,426
    Expenses
    $25,006,086
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,286,986

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $26,518,848
    Expenses
    $26,230,882
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,678,010

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,603,196
    Expenses
    $28,487,413
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,450,453

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $29,500,764
    Expenses
    $30,737,156
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,075,338

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,253,270
    Expenses
    $32,892,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,497,836

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,581,012
    Expenses
    $35,189,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,955,619

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,830,090
    Expenses
    $29,881,330
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,379,960

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $26,425,180
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,100,263

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

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 on its 2022 return

Declared as related by

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.