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SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY

EIN 44-0567385 BOLIVAR, MO

Revenue 2024
$56,069,214
Expenses 2024
$58,035,122

Program services were 90.9% 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
1600 UNIVERSITY AVE

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.

  • RICHARD MELSON

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $366,272
    From this org
    $109,955
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $256,317
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $109,955
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $49,950
    Nontaxable benefits
    $206,367
    Filer's total
    $366,272

  • SCOTT MOATS

    VP FOR ADMINISTRATION

    Total calculated
    $207,413
    From this org
    $94,532
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $112,881
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $94,532
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $19,490
    Nontaxable benefits
    $93,391
    Filer's total
    $207,413

  • TRACY MANLY

    PROVOST

    Total calculated
    $202,059
    From this org
    $183,597
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,462
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,748
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,849
    Deferred
    $9,556
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,906
    Filer's total
    $202,059

  • LEON WIRTH

    VP OF ADVANCEMENT

    Total calculated
    $196,050
    From this org
    $172,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $24,005
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $171,025
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,020
    Deferred
    $9,304
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,701
    Filer's total
    $196,050

  • RONALD MILLER

    VP FOR ONLINE LEARNING

    Total calculated
    $170,688
    From this org
    $162,425
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,263
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,938
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,487
    Deferred
    $8,047
    Nontaxable benefits
    $216
    Filer's total
    $170,688

  • BRANDT MERRITT

    VP MARKETING & ENROLLMENT

    Total calculated
    $164,456
    From this org
    $147,921
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,535
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,822
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $99
    Deferred
    $7,544
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,991
    Filer's total
    $164,456

  • TROY BETHARDS

    PROF BUS ADMIN

    Total calculated
    $152,687
    From this org
    $130,226
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,461
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,226
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $13,444
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,017
    Filer's total
    $152,687

  • DARREN CROWDER

    VP REGIONAL CAMPUSES

    Total calculated
    $139,176
    From this org
    $111,876
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,300
    Hours/week
    40

  • FRED BROOME

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE BRAND

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERYL MAYFIELD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ADAM HUGHES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRANDON JACKLEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRENT EPP

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRUCE DAVIDSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DALE BAKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DALE SMITH

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DON FAHRNI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GILBERTO ANDERSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN HAYASHI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JONATHAN SWAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOSH TRIMBLE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KEVIN FARR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KRISTY REID

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LANA HAGER

    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 — 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
    $56,069,214
    Expenses
    $58,035,122
    Contributions
    $3,188,582
    Grants paid
    $16,405,256
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $39,844,457
    Expenses
    $43,509,810
    Contributions
    $2,867,272
    Grants paid
    $1,204,749
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $46,069,587
    Expenses
    $43,580,435
    Contributions
    $12,478,699
    Grants paid
    $1,650,128

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

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.