South Carolina · Nonprofit
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY (South Carolina) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,290,607 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,037,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $145M
What Claflin University does
Mission
Claflin is committed to excellence in teaching, research, and creative expression. We are guided by a set of principles that help us work toward our goal of equipping students with the necessary tools for personal and professional growth. We are committed to offering quality undergraduate programs, innovative graduate programs, and viable continuing education opportunities. By design, we have emerged as a national leader in comprehensive education and continue to engage in a strategic plan which outlines an enhanced vision of academic excellence with greater emphasis on research, scholarly contributions and creative activity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional:claflin's primary exempt purpose achievement is to provide a higher education to students under a college degree program. Claflin has four schools consisting of the school of education, school of natural science and mathematics, school of business and school of humanities and social science as well as the center for professional and continuing studies. Courses are offered leading to the award of the bachelor of arts in 14 majors, bachelor of science in 23 majors and a masters of business administration.
$23,614,313 spentof which $7,253,506 as grants$30,463,135 earned by the program55% of program spendingAuxiliary services:the university conducted auxiliary enterprises for the convenience of students, faculty, staff and the community-at-large. Auxiliary enterprises consist of intercollegiate athletics, student housing, food service and print shop. The university participates in ncaa division ii athletics and its programs consist of four sports for men and five sports for women.
$13,676,705 spent$12,748,318 earned by the program32% of program spendingStudent services:Claflin University is wedded to the idea that academic achievement is facilitated by a well-balanced and well-rounded program of student activities and services. As the name implies, student development and services operates primarily for students. This unit seeks to serve students both directly and indirectly: directly in that it anticipates and provides for their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs and indirectly in that, in its totality, it helps to build the morale of the student body. Student services programs include career services, student health services, counseling center, chaplain services, financial aid, admissions, records, residential life and student government.
$5,526,837 spent$675,035 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe university provided support to panther health partners inc. And claflin qalicb inc. To facilitate new market tax credit transactions for the building of a health and wellness center to serve the university and the orangeburg community.
$198,973 spentof which $198,973 as grants0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $43,016,828.
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 $98M to $136M (+40%).
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 13% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 13% · 2021 40% · 2022 29% · 2023 31% · 2024 19% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $3.2M.
17 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 52% · 2019 64% · 2020 56% · 2021 89% · 2022 79% · 2023 32% — 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
51% of CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY'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
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $155.9M on record.
- Department of Education$98.8M
- Department of Commerce$20.6M
- Department of Energy$20.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.2M
- National Science Foundation$3.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
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 CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Panther Health Partners Inc · exempt
- Claflin Qalicb · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY: 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 CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY?
- CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY (South Carolina) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,290,607 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,037,000). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $46,290,607 in grants to CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $20,037,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 98 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