High Point University

Overview

Mission

High Point University is committed to your long-term personal and professional success, highlighting accelerated career outcomes such as 99% of graduates employed or in graduate school within 180 days (14 points above the national average). Bonner Leader Program Through the Bonner Leader Program, students across all of these scholarships join a community of like-minded scholars. The Bonner Leaders are HPU’s true servant leaders. They are the bridge that joins HPU students to the non-profits and social innovation projects of the Greater High Point area. Bonner Leaders help other students learn to serve well. All Bonners leave HPU with strong mentors, a dense network of community support, and real applicable job skills. Applicants for admission should apply for these scholarships.

Operating model

Revenue model

Other-operating. 86% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.

Distribution model

Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 70% for direct work, and 30% for grants.

• Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 72
• Transparency & Controls: 77
• Accountability: 91
• Sustainability: 73
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
• Where the money goes: 73.4% of revenue deployed · 82.4% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 34 of 37 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $362M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $5.9M · 51 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $51.8M reported
• Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 31 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 19 filed related-organization links
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
• Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 40/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.