South Carolina · Nonprofit
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,202,633 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($1,923,875). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $27k
What Coastal Carolina University Research Foundation does
Mission
Support Coastal Carolina University ("CCU")
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Various software purchased and donated to CCU relating specifically to research and learning initiatives for faculty, staff, & students of CCU
$13,891 spent44% of program spendingCost of insurance relating to operations of the Foundation
$4,049 spent13% of program spendingOther, described in Schedule O
$13,628 spent43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,568.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $31k to $27k (−12%).
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.
100% of COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Robert Shelton
BOD Chair/CEO
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $1k → $1.1M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH 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.
How concentrated its funding is
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 93% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,386 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,386 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH 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 COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,202,633 to it, the largest being National Collegiate Athletic Association ($1,923,875). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,202,633 in grants to COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest funder on record, with $1,923,875 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2022–2023), and the filings of 6 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