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Tuskegee University

To provide quality post secondary educational opportunities and contribute to the betterment of society through research and development

$39M
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$566k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.0MInternational$4.1MRecreation & Sports$1.7MReligion$1.3MHealth$1.0MFood & Nutrition$311kEmployment$281kHuman Services$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $2,015,137, the rows itemized in this filing. The $39,206,293 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,191,156 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $566k
$58,139
Median grant
13
States reached
$643M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sathguru Inc$566,295
ViiV HealthCare$225,000
University of Texas Health Science Center$198,469
Mississippi State University$160,273
Auburn University$132,012
Alabama A&M University$127,186
The University of Central Florida$86,084
Virginia Polytechic Institute and Science$78,855
My Senior Keeper Foundation Inc$70,156
University of Nebraska-Lincoln$64,297
University of Illinois at Springfield$58,139
Delaware State University$47,729
Columbia University Irving Medical Center$47,267
Urban Growers Collective Inc$36,600
The United Christian Community Association$31,959
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 33%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%The United Christian Community Association: $32k → 33%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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
KS
AR
TN
NC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 63 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

63 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
27

Total granted

$14M
$792k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+46%

Still filing today

17%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionInternationalHealthReligionEmploymentOther
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

  • Cornell University
    6× · 2017–2023 · $333k · revenue +59%
  • DS
    DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +48%
  • GC
    GLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AU
    Auburn University
    one grant, 2024 · $190k
  • TU
    The University of Central Florida
    one grant, 2024 · $101k
  • MS
    MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +0%
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
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
2
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
3
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

—
4
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
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

—
6
Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research

Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.

Food & Nutrition
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
The Florida State University Foundation Inc

The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…

Education
9
Lsu Foundation

The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc

Aura provides innovative, open resources to enable discovery and excellence in research, to unify the astrophysics communities, and to promote public understanding of our universe and the benefits of scientific exploration.

Science & Tech
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 1890 Universities Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Alcorn State University 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 97 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sathguru Inc: $1,336,880 · OtherSathguru IncAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $1,329,321 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $792,410 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $445,321 · Other+76 more: $5,528,421 · Other+76 more1890 UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION: $3,865,000 · International1890 UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATIONCornell University: $332,692 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $182,998 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $154,175 · EducationFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $104,420 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $44,756 · EducationALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · Education+6 more: $101,007 · EducationBLACK LADIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $675,000 · HealthAGRICULTURAL MISSIONS INC: $219,809 · ReligionGLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Science & TechEDISON WELDING INSTITUTE: $146,069 · Employment
Other$9,432,353International$3,865,000Education$952,048Health$675,000Religion$219,809Science & Tech$150,000Employment$146,069

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 budget1890 UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION: $3,865,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetCornell University: $332,692 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSECME Inc: $276,924 over 4y, 27% of budgetAGRICULTURAL MISSIONS INC: $219,809 over 2y, 67% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $182,998 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $154,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetEDISON WELDING INSTITUTE: $146,069 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFlorida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc: $104,420 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALABAMA SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE NETWORK: $63,430 over 2y, 24% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $54,465 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $44,756 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALCORN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UNITED CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ASS0: $31,959 over 1y, 17% of budgetNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKettering University: $24,615 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPART INC: $16,967 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $13,845 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $10,928 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $9,736 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $9,619 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 1890 UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLACK LADIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds SECME Inc ↗
  • Who funds AGRICULTURAL MISSIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL COLD CHAIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDISON WELDING INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation Inc ↗

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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN28.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · 1890 Universities Foundation · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · American Chemical Society · Strada Education Foundation Inc · National 4-H Council · Folds of Honor Foundation · Executive Leadership Council · The Howard University · Tulsa Community Foundation · Delaware State University · Hispanic Scholarship Fund

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 Tuskegee University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tuskegee University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 97 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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