- Revenue 2024
- $35,826,070
- Expenses 2024
- $36,882,316
Program services were 77.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B11
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 315 SHORTER AVE SW
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
ADVANCING GOD'S KINGDOM THROUGH A COMMITMENT TO ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, SPIRITUAL GROWTH, CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP, AND GLOBAL SERVICE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF A BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW.
Activities or mission (Part I)
SHORTER UNIVERSITY IS A PRIVATE CHRISTIAN NON-PROFIT COMPREHENSIVE LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTION.
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INSTRUCTIONAL - FUNDS EXPENDED FOR INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES IN ASSOCIATE, BACHELOR, AND MASTER DEGREE PROGRAMS. ENROLLMENT IN 2024-2025 INCLUDED 1490 STUDENTS.SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL AID - COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INCLUDES SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, LOANS AND PART-TIME CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT. EVERY STUDENT ENROLLED FULL-TIME AT SHORTER UNIVERSITY RECEIVES SOME FORM OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
Expenses $18,832,608 · Grants $12,687,120 · Revenue $24,789,579
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STUDENT SUPPORT - FUNDS EXPENDED FOR ACTIVITIES CONTRIBUTING TO STUDENTS' WELL BEING AND INTELLECTUAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OUTSIDE OF FORMAL INSTRUCTION.
Expenses $6,094,829 · Revenue $5,065,562
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ACADEMIC SUPPORT - EXPENDITURES INTEGRAL TO THE OPERATION AND SUPPORT OF THE ACADEMIC SERVICES OF THE UNIVERSITY.AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES - EXPENDITURES TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO STUDENT, FACULTY, AND STAFF INCLUDING HOUSING, CAFETERIA, AND BOOKSTORE.
Expenses $3,795,053 · Revenue $885,983
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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RANDY BOWEN
CHAIRMAN
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRYAN RICE
BOARD VICE-CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JERRY EMERSON
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR THOMAS HAMMOND
EX OFFICIO MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV BEN SMITH
CHAIR OF FINANCE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CHASE CAMP
TRUSTEE/MAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV KEITH MOORE
TRUSTEE/MAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV BRIAN CARROLL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CAREY STRANGE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID WHITENER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR JOE TANNER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN HATCHER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS JULIANNA ROGERS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KEN GUICE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV MATTHEW BOWDEN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MRS MICHELLE SABOU
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV MIKE HARDY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RUSS BROWN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR STACY DYER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR STEVE PARR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TIM BROWN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV RANDO ACRES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DR DANNY COCHRAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MR WILLIAM FRICKS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
REV MICAH HAMRIC
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
- $35,826,070
- Expenses
- $36,882,316
- Contributions
- $4,239,777
- Grants paid
- $12,687,120
-
2023
- Revenue
- $42,563,904
- Expenses
- $38,434,856
- Contributions
- $8,161,611
- Grants paid
- $12,655,286
-
2022
- Revenue
- $39,445,998
- Expenses
- $37,633,728
- Contributions
- $6,681,008
- Grants paid
- $14,021,143
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
- $39,807,545
- Expenses
- $38,857,941
- Assets (EOY)
- $57,209,537
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $36,131,967
- Expenses
- $34,630,448
- Assets (EOY)
- $57,466,893
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $36,729,034
- Expenses
- $35,072,790
- Assets (EOY)
- $59,873,616
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $35,664,531
- Expenses
- $35,695,656
- Assets (EOY)
- $57,979,928
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $36,212,480
- Expenses
- $37,849,491
- Assets (EOY)
- $60,294,612
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $41,599,968
- Expenses
- $43,964,986
- Assets (EOY)
- $62,620,590
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $45,832,760
- Expenses
- $44,815,011
- Assets (EOY)
- $63,452,539
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $43,925,154
- Expenses
- $50,206,094
- Assets (EOY)
- $64,241,803
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $49,807,148
- Expenses
- $49,293,900
- Assets (EOY)
- $71,282,440
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $50,737,011
- Assets (EOY)
- $66,695,433
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
-
LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
$275,000
2024 For general scholarship support.
-
LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
$275,000
2023 For general scholarship support.
-
LETTIE PATE WHITEHEAD FOUNDATION INC
$267,000
2022 For general scholarship support.
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2024 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN GEORGIA
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2023 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN GEORGIA
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2022 TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PRIVATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN GEORGIA
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2023 Grants
-
$20,000
2022 EDUCATION
-
2022 GROWTH
-
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 on its 2024 return
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501(C)(3) · CHURCH · GA
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GEORGIA BAPTIST FOUNDATION INC
501(C)(3) · TRUST AGENCY FOR ENDOWMENTS · GA
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GEORGIA BAPTIST HEALTH CARE MINISTRY FOUNDATION
501(C)(3) · HEALTH · GA
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.