Ohio · Nonprofit
DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $201,922 to it, the largest being ELMER M JONES TUW ($201,922). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,609 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Licking County Chamber of Commercelocal
- Tom Joyner Foundation Incportfolio match
- Texas Higher Education Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
32% of DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $18k → $26k.
From the IRS filings of DENISON 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Licking County Chamber of CommercelocalOH · funds 69 organizations near you
- Tom Joyner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Higher Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trial Lawyers Fdn Youth Edportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Maya Angelou Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Propel Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Design Labportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pci Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University System of Georgia Foundation Inc & Affiliatesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horticultural Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Denison University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DENISON 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $201,922 to it, the largest being ELMER M JONES TUW ($201,922). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $201,922 in grants to DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- ELMER M JONES TUW is the largest funder on record, with $201,922 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENISON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing