Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,906,228 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,650,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $45M
What Asian University for Women (Auw) Support Foundation does
Mission
Asian university for women (auw) seeks to offer high quality education to young women of extraordinary talents drawn from diverse national, ethnic, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds. See schedule o for continuation.it is open to young women of talent and commitment from all sections of society who would choose to work for a just and peaceful world. Auw sets as a goal to recruit at least half its student body from underserved groups across asia and the middle east, especially those displaced by war or political upheaval. Auw seeks to graduate women who will be skilled and innovative professionals, service-oriented leaders in the businesses and communities in which they will work and live, and promoters of intercultural understanding and sustainable human and economic development in asia and throughout the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Asian university for women support foundation exists solely to support the work of the asian university for women (auw) which is in chittagong, bangladesh. Auw was founded in 2008 with the goal of creating a pathway for women from diverse communities to emerge as effective leaders through an undergraduate education in the liberal arts and sciences. Today auw also offers graduate education in a select set of fields. Auw welcomes talented and motivated young women from anywhere in the world to enroll at the university. It particularly strives to attract and support women of uncommon merit drawn from challenging societal or economic backgrounds to get an excellent education and prepare to serve as ethical leaders. See schedule o for continuation.over 85% of auw students attend the university on full scholarship with philanthropic support provided to the institution covering all costs of room, board, tuition, international travel (where needed), primary health care, books and supplies and other associated costs. It relies on global philanthropic support to fund its operations and further development.this year saw enrollment rise to 1,960 students. At a time when education is being…
$7,195,097 spentof which $6,750,105 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,195,097.
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 2024 to 2025, from $31M to $46M (+47%).
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: 2018 16% · 2020 4% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 19% · 2024 30% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Kamal Ahmad
President and CEO
Board chair
Jack R Meyer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $143k → $3.5M.
13 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 75% · 2019 71% · 2020 65% · 2021 45% · 2022 42% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
71% of ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION?
- ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,906,228 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,650,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $13,906,228 in grants to ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASIAN UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN (AUW) SUPPORT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing