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Tennessee · Public charity

The University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in ordained and lay vocations.

$34M
Granted FY2018
1
Itemized grants FY2018
1
Organizations funded FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$1.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$1,500,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$1,500,000
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$882M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Andrew's-Sewanee School$1,500,00019%

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About The University of the South

How much does The University of the South give?
The University of the South reported 1 itemized grants totaling $1,500,000, out of $34,324,893 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does The University of the South fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The University of the South's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2018: St Andrew's-Sewanee School ($1.5M).
Where is The University of the South based?
The University of the South is based in TN.

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 1 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $59M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2018, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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