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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…

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$225k
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 2024.

Education$64MScience & Tech$3.8MSocial Science$677kHealth$578kEmployment$410kYouth Development$96kFood & Nutrition$45k
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $4,456,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,394,422 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,938,422 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–50k11 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k31 grants · $4.3M
$112,500
Median grant
14
States reached
$189M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Morehouse College$225,000
Prairie View A&M Foundation$200,000
University of Texas at El Paso$200,000
The University of Texas at Arlington$200,000
Florida A&M University$200,000
Southern University System Foundation$200,000
Alabama A&M University Foundation$200,000
JF Drake State Community & Technical College$145,000
Shelton State Community College$145,000
Grambling State University$145,000
Alabama State University Foundation$145,000
Virginia State University$145,000
Hinds Community College$145,000
Lawson State Community College$145,000
Fayetteville State University$145,000
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 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Delaware State University Foundation Inc: $675k → 11%Partnership for Education Advancement: $10.4M → 17%Prairie View A&M University: $5.0M → 14%Texas Southern University: $860k → 16%Florida A&M University: $5.0M → 19%JF Drake State Community & Technical College: $145k → 11%Lawson State Community College: $150k → 16%Shelton State Community College: $145k → 17%Tuskegee University: $5.0M → 32%Winston Salem State University: $805k → 15%Fayetteville State University: $145k → 16%North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University: $5.0M → 16%Morehouse College: $225k → 13%Albany State University: $420k → 28%West Virginia State University Foundation Inc: $240k → 18%Hinds Community College: $145k → 23%Southern University System Foundation: $200k → 19%Grambling State University: $145k → 32%Morgan State University: $5.0M → 19%Partnership for Education Advancement: $8.0M → 17%Prairie View A&M University: $444k → 14%Texas Southern University: $814k → 16%Howard University: $5.0M → 14%Florida A&M University: $200k → 19%Lawson State Community College: $145k → 16%Alabama State University Foundation: $145k → 18%Winston Salem State University: $664k → 15%Fayetteville State University: $141k → 16%Albany State University: $364k → 28%Morgan State University: $512k → 19%Partnership for Education Advancement: $3.0M → 17%Prairie View A&M University: $405k → 14%Texas Southern University: $786k → 16%Howard University: $455k → 14%Alabama State University Foundation: $141k → 18%Winston Salem State University: $465k → 15%Morgan State University: $397k → 19%Partnership for Education Advancement: $175k → 17%Prairie View A&M University: $401k → 14%Texas Southern University Foundation: $145k → 16%Howard University: $430k → 14%Winston Salem State University: $237k → 15%Morgan State University: $341k → 19%Texas Southern University Foundation: $141k → 16%Howard University: $390k → 14%University of DC Foundation: $528k → 14%University of the District of Columbia Foundation: $317k → 14%Prairie View A&M Foundation: $200k → 16%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

NY
OH
PA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71M · 43 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
16

Total granted

$71M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+10%

Still filing today

63%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
EducationScience & TechPhilanthropyOther
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

  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6.5M · revenue +40%
  • TU
    Tuskegee University
    5× · 2020–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +42%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $420k
  • AS
    Albany State University
    one grant, 2018 · $364k
  • BS
    Bishop State Community College
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
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
Saint Augustine's University

The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.

Education
3
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
4
Houston Christian University

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."

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5
Thomas University

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.

Education
6
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…

Education
7
Hardin-Simmons University

The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.

Education
8
Cumberland University

The mission of cumberland university is to provide a personalized, high-quality, value-based educational experience that equips learners to lead, serve, and excel in an ever-evolving world.

—
9
Texas College

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.

Education
10
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
11
Coker University

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…

Education
12
Columbus State University Foundation Inc

The Columbus State University Foundation supports educational excellence and the expansion of educational opportunities at Columbus State University. The Foundation attracts, receives, invests, manages, and expends gifts and other…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Univerty System; the most unlike its peers is Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science. 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

42 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. 42 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
19/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC: $21,604,684 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INCTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6,494,861 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYTuskegee University: $5,240,000 · EducationTuskegee University+29 more: $5,708,527 · Education+29 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $6,387,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKPRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY: $6,299,845 · OtherPRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITYFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERM: $5,312,500 · OtherFLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY TERMNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY: $5,220,100 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITYTexas Southern University: $2,836,000 · OtherTexas Southern UniversityWinston-Salem State University: $2,211,300 · OtherWinston-Salem State UniversityAlabama A&M University: $1,556,001 · Other+35 more: $5,183,587 · Other+35 moreCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Education$39,048,072Other$35,006,433Philanthropy$100,000Science & Tech$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT INC: $21,604,684 over 2y, 34% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $6,494,861 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTuskegee University: $5,240,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC: $1,049,998 over 4y, 14% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $975,032 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $723,750 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $371,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $370,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $286,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $275,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetThe Foundation for NC A&T State University: $247,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM: $215,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $193,747 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSpelman College: $187,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIV FOUNDATION: $93,050 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTougaloo College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAllen University: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida Memorial University Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStillman College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLivingstone College: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST AUGUSTINE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 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.

  • 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 TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Foundation for NC A&T State University ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HINDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Tom Joyner Foundation…Strada Education Foun…National Collegiate A…American Chemical Soc…Folds of Honor Founda…Educational Credit Ma…Tulsa Community Found…Student Freedom Initi…Executive Leadership …Partnership for Educa…United Negro College …World Learning Inc
Tom Joyner Foundation IncTX51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Thurgood Marshall College Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 76 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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