· Public charity
United Negro College Fund Inc
Uncf's mission is to build a robust and nationally-recognized pipeline of under-represented students who, because of uncf support, become highly-qualified college graduates and to ensure that our network of member institutions is a respected model of best (see schedule o) practice in moving students to and through college.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 40 grants below total $54,134,037 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,710,549 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,576,512 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $3,839,937 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $3,600,671 |
| MOREHOUSE COLLEGE | $3,141,793 |
| CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY | $2,968,505 |
| BENEDICT COLLEGE | $2,120,774 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $2,054,597 |
| ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER | $1,826,780 |
| BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY | $1,671,342 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS | $1,607,792 |
| TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY | $1,459,412 |
| TALLADEGA COLLEGE | $1,220,001 |
| FISK UNIVERSITY | $1,210,030 |
| DILLARD UNIVERSITY | $1,201,234 |
| OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY | $1,186,312 |
| HUSTON TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY | $1,186,178 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% 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.
47 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HSHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $152M · revenue +14% · 65% of their budget
- SCSpelman College9× · 2017–2025 · $27M · revenue +46%
- CAClark Atlanta University Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- EIEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INCone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -49%
- JSJACKSON STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $150k
- LULINCOLN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
Union Institute & University educates highly motivated adults who seek academic programs to engage, enlighten, and empower them to pursue professional goals and a lifetime of learning and service. Offering accredited bachelors, masters,…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.
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…
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…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
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…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Alfred University's mission is helping students realize their purpose. People living a life of purpose enjoy longer and happier lives. Alfred University promotes its mission through three core strengths - Intersections, Mentorship, and…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Trinity college's mission is to provide excellence in liberal arts education with emphasis on outstanding faculty, rigorous curriculum, talented and motivated student body and an attractive, supportive and secure campus community.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bennett College and the most unlike its peers is Lane College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 70 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 — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 55 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 HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds AIGC SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BENEDICT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SHAW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Florida Memorial University Inc ↗
- Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Tougaloo College ↗
- Who funds Talladega College ↗
- Who funds Wiley College ↗
- Who funds LANE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Jarvis Christian University ↗
- Who funds Edward Waters University Inc ↗
- Who funds Voorhees College ↗
- Who funds LeMoyne-Owen College ↗
- Who funds RUST COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Philander Smith College ↗
- Who funds Miles College Inc ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Saint Augustine's University ↗
- Who funds Stillman College ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Paine College ↗
- Who funds Allen University ↗
- Who funds Interdenominational Theological Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Morris College ↗
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 · Educational Credit Management Corporation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Thurgood Marshall College Fund · Council of Independent Colleges · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Student Freedom Initiative Inc · Chapman Foundation Inc · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Dr Maya Angelou Foundation · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation 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 United Negro College Fund Inc 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 — 18% of income from government
- Edward Waters University Inc — 15% of income from government
- Bethune-Cookman University — 11% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 1% 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.