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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC$20,000
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION 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
THE SALVATION ARMY OF METRO ATLANTA$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN NC$2,500
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:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
59/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHINRI: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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 budgetUNIVERSITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetMETRO ATLANTA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalem Montessori School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetPAGE ROBBINS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $817 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary International Club of Atlanta: $650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $600 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Ashcourt Family Found…The Inman FoundationThe H FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Community Foundation …Georgia Power Foundat…Thomas C & Ann L Webs…The Klamon Family Fou…Dan and Merrie Boone …
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

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 The University Financing Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The University Financing Foundation Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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