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SPRING ARBOR UNIVERSITY

EIN 38-1359569 SPRING ARBOR, MI

Revenue 2024
$74,550,409
Expenses 2024
$58,628,842

Program services were 90.6% 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
106 E MAIN ST

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).

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.

  • Debra McKenna Blews

    Secretary-Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Greg Bontrager

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 2 related

  • Robert Gould

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Abdu Murray

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amber Wright

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Babbie Mason

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Daryl Miller

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dave Page

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Kendall

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Don Walker

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Douglas Matthews

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Edward Lamoreaux

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Jennifer Boss Mainka

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jim Mol

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ken Johnson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • Lori Ormston Roberts

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Paul Bucholz

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Richard Townley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ron Jones

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Todd Tibbits

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brent Ellis

    President

    Total calculated
    $362,818
    From this org
    $326,066
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,752
    Hours/week
    50 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $292,208
    Bonus
    $28,304
    Other
    $5,554
    Deferred
    $18,144
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,608
    Filer's total
    $362,818

  • Dawn Schnitkey

    VP of Finance & Administration (Left 09/24)

    Total calculated
    $111,369
    From this org
    $92,362
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,007
    Hours/week
    50

  • Carol Green

    Provost/CAO

    Total calculated
    $168,367
    From this org
    $145,880
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,487
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $145,880
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,550
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,937
    Filer's total
    $168,367

  • Doug Wilcoxson

    Executive Vice President

    Total calculated
    $160,595
    From this org
    $134,224
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,371
    Hours/week
    50 + 2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $133,162
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,062
    Deferred
    $8,320
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,051
    Filer's total
    $160,595

  • Marla Sanford

    VP for Enrollment and Marketing

    Total calculated
    $131,287
    From this org
    $107,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,607
    Hours/week
    50

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 — 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
    $74,550,409
    Expenses
    $58,628,842
    Contributions
    $10,090,746
    Grants paid
    $17,464,574
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $62,400,836
    Expenses
    $57,994,359
    Contributions
    $10,257,511
    Grants paid
    $16,217,011
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $57,791,065
    Expenses
    $59,385,693
    Contributions
    $6,423,100
    Grants paid
    $15,758,938

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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.

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 2024 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 10 September 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.