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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.8M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$46M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Clemson University Land Stewardship Foundation Inc does

Mission

To receive and manage real property and related assets for the benefit of clemson university through active development, leasing and management and to solicit gifts in support of this purpose.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Real estate management and development - development and management of real estate including academic and industrial space focused on automotive design and engineering. This combined academic and economic development effort is in direct support of the mission of clemson university.

    $4,513,846 spent$6,660,383 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,513,846.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($6.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.6M) Net assets 100 ($47M)2022 Revenue 79 ($5.2M) Expenses 119 ($4.3M) Net assets 102 ($48M)2023 Revenue 111 ($7.3M) Expenses 121 ($4.3M) Net assets 108 ($51M)2024 Revenue 96 ($6.3M) Expenses 136 ($4.9M) Net assets 93 ($44M)2025 Revenue 103 ($6.8M) Expenses 138 ($5.0M) Net assets 97 ($46M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (103)Expenses (138)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $114M to $122M (+7%).

$116M
$114M
$122M
$116M
$118M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 23% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.0M
’21
$967k
’22
$3.0M
’23
$1.5M
’24
$1.9M
’25
7.4
months of
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

Margaret K Mccauley

President and CEO

Board chair

Stephen F Hutchinson

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1517161416
Joined·+4+2+2+4
No longer listed·2342
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC

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In South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Licar LLC · disregarded
  • Licam LLC · disregarded
  • Culsf One · disregarded
  • Culsf Two · disregarded
  • Clemson University · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC: 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 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($0). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC?
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LAND STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION INC 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 2021–2025), 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