· Public charity
Thurgood Marshall College Fund
The mission of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund is three-fold: Partner with our member-schools to increase access, retention and graduation rates of students attending their schools, identify and prepare students attending member-schools who have significant leadership potential, and create a pipeline for employers of highly qualified…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 37 grants below total $2,659,072 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $25,231,004 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,571,932 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k24 grants · $529k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | $675,000 |
| Howard University | $429,787 |
| Virginia State University | $141,000 |
| Texas Southern University Foundation | $141,000 |
| Fayetteville State University | $141,000 |
| Alabama A&M University | $141,000 |
| Alabama State University Foundation | $141,000 |
| Lawson State Community College | $70,500 |
| Hampton University | $50,000 |
| North Carolina A&T University | $50,000 |
| North Carolina A&T University | $50,000 |
| Tennessee State University | $50,000 |
| Southern University and A&M College | $50,000 |
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | $45,032 |
| North Carolina A&T University Foundation | $40,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +40%- TUTuskegee University4× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +42%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ASALBANY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $420k
- ASAlbany State Universityone grant, 2018 · $364k
- TSTENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.
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.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
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…
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…
Thomas university is an independent, not for profit, institution of higher education with undergraduate and graduate programs that prepare students for successful careers and responsible citizenship in a rapidly changing and complex world.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Univerty System and the most unlike its peers is Southern University At New Orleans Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for NC A&T State University ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Allen University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Strada Education Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Student Freedom Initiative Inc · Executive Leadership Council · Partnership for Education Advancement Inc · United Negro College Fund Inc · World Learning 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 Thurgood Marshall College Fund 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.
- Florida Memorial University Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 6% of income from government
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.