Louisiana · Nonprofit
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND (Louisiana) receives grants from 748 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,485,045 to it, the largest being THE WEATHERHEAD FOUNDATION ($30,115,621). 454 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9B
- Funders on record
- 748
- Grants received
- $381M
- Net assets
- $3.1B
What The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund does
Mission
Higher Education, Research and Public Service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher Education: Operation of a Private University: This category includes expenditures for all activities that are part of the institutions instruction program. Expenditures for credit and non-credit courses, for academic, occupational, and vocational instruction and for regular, special and extended sessions are included. The instruction program encompasses 14,664 students participating in undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs in the fields of liberal arts, science and engineering, architecture, business, law, social work, medicine and public health and tropical medicine. Also included in this category are all forms of student aid and expenditures for the education and support of students.
$1,147,957,000 spentof which $245,479,000 as grants$1,603,809,000 earned by the program76% of program spendingHigher Education: Public Service: This category includes all expenditures for the public service component of the academic mission of the university. Public service is a core requirement of the undergraduate curriculum. Note that some of the sponsored activities included in the Organized Research achievement could also be described as Public Service. These include the operation of medical and law clinics that serve the underprivileged, and certain development work overseas. (14,664 students)
$62,960,000 spent$4,203,000 earned by the program4% of program spendingHigher Education: Organized Research: This category includes all expenditures for all activities that are part of the university's research program, which includes activities specifically organized to produce research outcomes, whether commissioned by an agency external to the institution or separately budgeted by an organizational unit within the institution. Subject to those conditions, it includes expenditures for individual and/or project research as well as those of institutes and research centers (over 1,000 Federal and State awards).
$199,187,000 spent$196,634,000 earned by the program13% of program spendingHigher Education: Auxiliary Enterprises: This category includes services that support educational activities and athletic expenditures. Services include bookstore, student housing, vending and food administration and campus recreation. (14,387 students)
$101,577,000 spent$97,957,000 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,511,681,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.8B to $3.6B (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 10% · 2019 9% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 10% · 2023 11% · 2024 11% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
David Mussafer
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 182 funders to 307 funders, grant income rose $23M → $46M.
60 of 748 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $69M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest American Athletic Conference); $69M from 83 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Tulane Murphy Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 748 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 17 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 17 funders to its left
47% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 21% · 2019 20% · 2020 8% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 12% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
49% of THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 43 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80M arriving through sponsors registered in 25 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 20 related entities
- Tulane International LLC · disregarded
- Riversphere I LLC · disregarded
- Riversphere II LLC · disregarded
- Square 245 LLC · disregarded
- Tulane Living Well LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND?
- THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND (Louisiana) receives grants from 748 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,485,045 to it, the largest being THE WEATHERHEAD FOUNDATION ($30,115,621). 454 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 748 organizations giving $381,485,045 in grants to THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND, 454 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND?
- THE WEATHERHEAD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,115,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 748 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing