Texas · Nonprofit
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $917,071 to it, the largest being Tianaderrah Foundation (DE) ($430,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $917k
- Net assets
- $77M
What American University in Bulgaria does
Mission
The mission of the American University in Bulgaria is to educate democratic citizens for leadership, service, and personal and professional success.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: The American University in Bulgaria offers students an American-style education steeped in the tradition of liberal learning and characterized by close student-faculty engagement, a residential-life experience, and the opportunity to interact with a diverse student body. The University is dedicated to education in the democratic tradition, with an emphasis on open dialogue, choice of courses, and protection of academic freedom. Approximately 244 bachelor degree students graduated in May 2024 and joined the over 5751 alumni working and going to graduate schools world-wide. They are contributing to the economic, political, and social development of over 40 countries.
$2,821,000 spentof which $1,123,000 as grants$814,000 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,821,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $40M to $77M (+92%).
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.
98% of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $29k → $272k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 51% · 2019 61% · 2020 30% · 2021 82% · 2022 99% · 2023 56% — 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
40% of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $400k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- American University in Bulgaria · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA?
- AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA (Texas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $917,071 to it, the largest being Tianaderrah Foundation (DE) ($430,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $917,071 in grants to AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA?
- Tianaderrah Foundation (DE) is the largest funder on record, with $430,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN BULGARIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 14 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