Alabama · Nonprofit
AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION
AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($225,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Auburn Research & Technology Foundation does
Mission
The auburn research and technology foundation is an independent alabama nonprofit corporation organized on august 24, 2004 to develop and operate the auburn research park and to assist auburn university with the attraction, development and commercialization of technology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
During previous years, ARTF applied for and received a $225,000 grant from Alabama Power for the LAUNCH Innovation Grant Program which provides funding for near commercialization technologies and inventions to become market ready. After a multi-stage competition, the Foundation awarded $100,000 to a faculty research project. The project is for a working prototype of dry printing and additive nanomanufacturing technology that could enable: 1. On-demand and in-situ generation of various pure nanoparticles (e.g., metals, insulators, semiconductors, superconductors, ceramics, composites, etc.), 2. In-situ and real-time laser sintering of dry nanoparticles jet on various substrates (polyamide, PET, PDMS, paper, metal, ceramic, etc.), with no further post-processing. The remaining $125,000 is restricted for awards to LAUNCH winners in fiscal year 2025 and beyond. In 2025, ARTF distributed $23,941 of the $125,000 restricted in prior years.
$23,941 spent17% of program spendingARTF operates an Event Center space for community use.
$23,765 spent$38,726 earned by the program17% of program spendingARTF leases building within the Research Park as a childcare center for community benefit.
$89,819 spent$215,601 earned by the program65% of program spendingDesign & Fabrication of Entangled Microwave Photo
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $137,525.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $16M (+5%).
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.
2% of AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
James H Sanford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101k on record.
- Department of Defense$101k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY 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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
6% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Auburn University · exempt
- Auburn Research Park I · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION?
- AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $225,000 to it, the largest being ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC ($225,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $225,000 in grants to AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION?
- ALABAMA POWER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUBURN RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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