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WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY

EIN 31-0604719 WILBERFORCE, OH

Revenue 2024
$23,079,487
Expenses 2024
$22,498,542

Program services were 72.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B420
Classification
2000
Street
1055 N BICKETT 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

WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY IS A HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY AND THE PRIMARY MISSION IS TO ENGAGE, SUPPORT, AND ASSIST STUDENTS IN IDENTIFYING AND PREPARING FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE PURPOSES IN LIFE AS SOCIAL CHANGE AGENTS, SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS, ENTREPRENEURS, THOUGHT-LEADERS AND GLOBAL CITIZENS BY IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH RIGOROUS INTELLECTUAL INQUIRY AND CRITICAL THINKING. THE MISSION IS MOST EFFECTIVELY ACCOMPLISHED BY INSTILLING PRIDE, DISCIPLINE AND INSPIRING LIFE-LONG LEARNING, PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OBTAINED, AND THE SKILLS DEVELOPED.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY'S MISSION IS TO HELP STUDENTS PREPARE FOR LIFE'S CHALLEGES AND TO PROVIDE THEM WITH A SOUND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION. IMPARTING KNOWLDEGE, INSTILLING DISCIPLINE, AND INSPIRING LIFELONG LEARNING THROUGH CRITICAL INQUIRY, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT.

  • PROVIDE A POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION TO THE STUDENTS OF WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY.

    Expenses $16,118,563

  • THE UNIVESITY PROVIDES POST SECONDARY EDUCATION TO MINORITY STUDENTS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE UNINTED STATES.

    Expenses $238,639

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.

  • DR VANN R NEWKIRK

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $262,000
    From this org
    $262,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $12,000
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $262,000

  • AMANI LEWIS

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $62,039
    From this org
    $62,039
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • PAXTON BAKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JERMAINE COVINGTON

    TRUSTEE EMER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JERMAINE COVINGTON

    TRUSTEE-AME

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARCUS HENDERSON

    TRUSTEE EMER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR NELSON RIVERS III

    TRUSTEE EMER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NATE JENKINS

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WILLIAM LEE

    TRUSTEE EMER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR RICHARD ALLEN LEWIS

    TRUSTEE-EMER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LYDEL MADDEN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAUL P MARTIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WALTER REYNOLDS

    TRUSTEE - EX

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANGELA RYE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANGELA T RYE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHN TOLBERT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ADRIENNE TRIMBLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BISHOP STAFFORD WICKER

    TRUSTEE/DIRE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DELORES WRIGHT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $23,079,487
    Expenses
    $22,498,542
    Contributions
    $9,170,898
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $21,272,123
    Expenses
    $20,215,137
    Contributions
    $8,807,757
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,211,135
    Expenses
    $16,119,083
    Contributions
    $7,922,390
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $18,509,447
    Expenses
    $17,420,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,478,430

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $40,652,171
    Expenses
    $14,780,195
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,180,485

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,993,076
    Expenses
    $15,573,084
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,513,096

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,748,612
    Expenses
    $15,978,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,267,513

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,891,243
    Expenses
    $17,383,042
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,886,790

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,404,748
    Expenses
    $14,857,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,066,434

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,253,937
    Expenses
    $18,565,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,557,130

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,480,455
    Expenses
    $21,285,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,896,519

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $19,275,530
    Expenses
    $17,165,480
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,814,557

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $13,946,461
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,399,767

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.

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.