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National University

To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning.

$59M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$131k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$133MCommunity Improvement$80kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $204,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,244,776 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $59,039,876 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $131k
$37,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC$131,250
NATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION$37,500
FOUNDER FIRST CDC INC$25,000
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$11,150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP: $28.5M → 11%ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION INC: $131k → 14%CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE: $1.8M → 9%NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (FKA SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP): $21.0M → 11%CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE: $1.5M → 9%SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP: $16.0M → 11%CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE: $500k → 9%JOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY: $2.6M → 11%city university of seattle: $364k → 9%SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP: $37.9M → 11%NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY (FKA WESTMED): $1.8M → 11%SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP: $6.8M → 11%NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY (FKA WESTMED: $1.0M → 11%john f kennedy university: $6.0M → 11%JOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP: $2.6M → 11%NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY (FKA WESTMED: $281k → 11%JOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY: $2.4M → 11%NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (FKA SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT GROUP): $113k → 11%NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY (FKA WESTMED: $1.0M → 11%NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $11k → 11%JOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY: $590k → 11%FOUNDERS FIRST CDC INC: $25k → 11%FOUNDERS FIRST CDC INC: $25k → 11%FOUNDER FIRST CDC INC: $25k → 11%Lift Development Enterprises Inc: $5k → 11%San Diego Public Library: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133M · 5 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$133M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-65%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NU
    NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $68M · revenue -99% · 100% of their budget
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $57M · revenue -92% · 42% of their budget
  • CU
    CITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE
    4× · 2017–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -80%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National University

To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…

Education
2
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
3
Northern Illinois University Foundation

The niu foundation's mission is to energize and connect the private sector with the niu community to secure and steward resources that support the future and growth of niu.

Education
4
North American University

North american university (nau) is a private and non-profit institution offering bachelor's and master's degrees. the university is committed to teaching excellence and being student centered. nau strives to provide an environment…

Education
5
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

—
8
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
9
Northwestern Health Sciences University

Northwestern health sciences university prepares and serves the next generation of professionals and leaders to become vital contributors to the delivery and advancement of health care. our mission is accomplished through educational…

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
University Professional and Continuing Education Association

University professional and continuing education association (upcea) advances leadership in professional, continuing and online education. the association is dedicated to meeting the needs of professional members and the institutions they…

Education
12
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Diego Public Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $68,289,202 · EducationNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONJOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY: $56,697,040 · EducationJOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY+4 more: $4,339,918 · EducationNORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $4,065,971 · Other+1 more: $37,500 · OtherZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 · Animals
Education$129,326,160Other$4,103,471Animals$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $68,289,202 over 6y, 100% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY UNIVERSITY: $56,697,040 over 5y, 42% of budgetCITY UNIVERSITY OF SEATTLE: $4,123,668 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetNORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $4,065,971 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDERS FIRST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL HEAD START ASSOCIATION: $37,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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