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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.

$95M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$3.8M
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 2025.

Education$625MEmployment$7.3MReligion$5.1MHealth$55k
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 40 grants below total $54,134,037, the rows itemized in this filing. The $94,710,549 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,576,512 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.
$1,044,100
Median grant
15
States reached
$892M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $31.2M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $11.3M → 14%BENEDICT COLLEGE: $2.1M → 16%CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $6.2M → 25%TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY: $2.6M → 32%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $7.9M → 13%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $6.8M → 23%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $29.3M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $11.0M → 14%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FU: $15.4M → 14%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $7.8M → 13%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $2.1M → 23%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $25.4M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $8.9M → 14%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FU: $14.6M → 14%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $4.5M → 13%XAVIER UNIVERSITY: $2.0M → 23%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $22.5M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $5.8M → 14%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FU: $12.1M → 14%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $3.6M → 13%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $16.9M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $4.4M → 14%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FU: $9.2M → 14%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $3.1M → 13%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10.7M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $4.0M → 14%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $7.6M → 14%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $3.0M → 13%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8.1M → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN GRADUATE CENTER SCHOLARS: $3.9M → 14%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $5.2M → 14%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 13%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $4.2M → 10%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $2.7M → 14%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 13%HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $3.8M → 10%ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER: $2.2M → 14%CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 13%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $2.8M → 13%DILLARD UNIVERSITY: $2.9M → 23%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $2.8M → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2.6M → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2.5M → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2.3M → 13%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $2.3M → 13%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $2.2M → 13%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $1.9M → 13%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

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$637M · 47 repeat orgs$900k to everyone else

47 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
8

Total granted

$637M
$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+33%

Still filing today

94%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthOther
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

  • HS
    HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $152M · revenue +169% · 65% of their budget
  • SC
    Spelman College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $27M · revenue +46%
  • CA
    Clark Atlanta University Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • EI
    EXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -54%
  • JS
    JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • LU
    LINCOLN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Union Institute & University

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,…

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2
Daemen University

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…

Education
3
American Baptist Theological Seminary dba American Baptist College

Is to provide educational opportunities for gifted students who have limited academic experiences and resources but unlimited potential for leadership in society.

Education
4
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
5
University of Lynchburg

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…

Education
6
Franklin University

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…

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7
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
8
Tusculum University

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…

Education
9
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
10
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
11
Trinity College

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.

Education
12
Alfred University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bennett College; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 55 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
37/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $152,079,597 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUNDASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $70,782,047 · EducationASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUNDAIGC SCHOLARS: $52,373,916 · EducationAIGC SCHOLARSSpelman College: $27,154,877 · EducationClark Atlanta University Inc: $24,171,830 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $22,231,612 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $20,582,966 · Education+33 more: $221,465,843 · Education+33 moreOAKWOOD UNIVERSITY: $11,792,856 · OtherHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $8,753,059 · OtherTalladega College: $8,425,644 · OtherJarvis Christian University: $7,099,202 · OtherInterdenominational Theological Center Inc: $5,149,653 · OtherTennessee State University: $1,940,575 · OtherFAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY: $1,857,670 · Other+7 more: $1,839,000 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $55,351 · Health
Education$590,842,688Other$46,857,659Health$55,351

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $152,079,597 over 9y, 65% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $70,782,047 over 9y, 80% of budgetAIGC SCHOLARS: $52,373,916 over 9y, 99% of budgetSpelman College: $27,154,877 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $24,171,830 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $22,231,612 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $20,582,966 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetCLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: $15,319,236 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetTuskegee University: $12,195,473 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $12,095,187 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetOAKWOOD UNIVERSITY: $11,792,856 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetBENEDICT COLLEGE: $10,669,942 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetBETHUNE-COOKMAN UNIVERSITY: $10,336,638 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $9,357,477 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetFlorida Memorial University Inc: $9,220,734 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $8,753,059 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $8,486,103 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTougaloo College: $8,478,627 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetTalladega College: $8,425,644 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetWiley College: $8,118,036 over 9y, 11% of budgetLANE COLLEGE: $7,504,490 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $7,480,480 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetJarvis Christian University: $7,099,202 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetEdward Waters University Inc: $6,979,756 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetVoorhees College: $6,778,365 over 9y, 4.6% of budgetLeMoyne-Owen College: $6,721,458 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetRUST COLLEGE: $6,705,732 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetWILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY: $6,639,238 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetPhilander Smith College: $6,464,837 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetMiles College Inc: $6,403,501 over 9y, 3.4% of budgetLivingstone College: $6,238,687 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetBENNETT COLLEGE: $6,131,701 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetSaint Augustine's University: $5,996,874 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetStillman College: $5,925,986 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY: $5,882,486 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTEXAS COLLEGE: $5,705,448 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetPaine College: $5,505,256 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetAllen University: $5,326,812 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetInterdenominational Theological Center Inc: $5,149,653 over 9y, 24% of budgetMorris College: $4,682,940 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,955,750 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetNORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: $1,658,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetEXCELENCIA IN EDUCATION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $55,351 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaul Quinn College: $55,093 over 2y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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…Educational Credit Ma…National Collegiate A…Thurgood Marshall Col…Council of Independen…Enterprise Holdings F…Student Freedom Initi…Chapman Foundation IncNational Trust for Hi…Dr Maya Angelou Found…Lettie Pate Whitehead…
Tom Joyner Foundation IncTX70.5× affinity31 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 · 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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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 55 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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