Wartburg College

Overview

Mission

Wartburg College is dedicated to challenging and nurturing students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning. Regardless of your financial standing, we are committed to making education attainable for you. As a residential college, Wartburg supports the concept of a socially, culturally, and economically diverse student body and believes this diversity better prepares students for society. The college provides financial aid to enable students from all segments of society to attend. Wartburg believes that students should be able to select a school for academic rather than financial reasons and admits students on academic and personal promise, not the ability to pay. ☰ Menu Financial Aid.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% 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: 71
• Transparency & Controls: 67
• Accountability: 85
• Sustainability: 60
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 77.5% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 27 of 30 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57.2M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $383K · 39 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.8M reported
• Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 14 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: 11 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
• 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.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
• Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.