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The University Financing Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$33MHousing & Shelter$33MScience & Tech$361kCommunity Improvement$161kPhilanthropy$126kYouth Development$80kCivil Rights$55kReligion$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$513M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION PROPERTIES LLC$1,050,000
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GA FOUNDATION$100,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR INCLUSIVE INNOVATION (PIN)$75,000
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS$25,000
ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS$25,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC$20,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC$20,000
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INNOVATION ASSOCIATION$18,000
UIDP$15,000
UIDP$10,000
UIDP$10,000
YOUNG LIFE-D184$10,000
STATE SCIENCE & TECH INSTITUTE$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN NC$2,500
THE SALVATION ARMY OF METRO ATLANTA$2,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION USA INC: $500 → 8%THE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $150 → 13%PAGE-ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES: $1k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $300 → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $250 → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 17%A BEACON OF HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $100 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 48 repeat orgs$60M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
51

Total granted

$6.7M
$59M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +11%
  • US
    University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates
    6× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +45%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $178k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UR
    USG REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION XIII LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $32M
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2022 · $23M
  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $2.8M · revenue +2%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
3
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
6
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

12
Southeastern Universities Research Association Inc

Sura's mission is to advance collaborative research and education and to strengthen the scientific capabilities of its members and our nation.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Highlands Cashiers Center for Life Enrichment. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesPregnancy Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Local History MuseumsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Community FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%2%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr14%40%20–35yr9%20%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%0%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr9%5%35–55yr13%84%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/87
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,214

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
59/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USG REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION XIII LLC — $31,732,250 · OtherUSG REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION XIII LLCTHE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA — $23,053,145 · OtherTHE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA+74 more — $1,564,387 · OtherGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,490,600 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOU…Georgia State University Foundation Inc — $2,750,000 · EducationGeorgia State Un…FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,000,000 · EducationFLORIDA INSTITUT…University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates — $475,000 · Education+20 more — $259,370 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,900 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $600 · PhilanthropySpicy Grove Ministries Inc — $19,178 · ReligionAMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL — $15,600 · Religion+4 more — $1,620 · ReligionBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $25,500 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $2,603 · Housing & ShelterYOUNG LIFE — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTATE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — $15,000 · Science & TechUNIVERSITY INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,750 · Science & TechAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY — $750 · Science & Tech
Other$56,349,782Education$9,974,970Philanthropy$130,000Religion$36,398Housing & Shelter$28,103Youth Development$20,000Science & Tech$18,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,490,600 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $2,750,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliates — $475,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH PARKS — $177,500 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetGEORGIA ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY VENTURES INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INNOVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $78,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetWHITEFIELD ACADEMY INC — $60,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpicy Grove Ministries Inc — $19,178 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN ANGLICAN COUNCIL — $15,600 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSTATE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHINRI — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GEORGIA ARCHIVES — $6,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern North Carolina Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY INDUSTRY DEMONSTRATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bascom Corporation — $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CHILDREN'S SHELTER INCORPORATED — $2,603 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN MEDICAL DEVICE ASSOC INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands Biological Foundation Inc — $2,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSalem Montessori School Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe George Washington University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA COLLEGE & STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Camp of Colors Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $817 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRotary International Club of Atlanta — $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA29.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · The H Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Thomas C & Ann L Webster Charitable Foundation · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The University Financing Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The University Financing Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The University Financing Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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