North Carolina · Nonprofit
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,835,278 to it, the largest being ANONYMOUS TRUST U/A DATED 2-4-2008 ($8,336,800). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Fayetteville State University Foundation does
Mission
To raise and disburse funds for programs that will further the educational purposes of fayetteville state university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A. To solicit, receive, hold, manage, and disburse contributions, gifts, grants, bequests, and transfers of funds or property of any nature for the benefit of fayetteville state university, its students, faculty, and staff. To use the name of the university in any way that will benefit and enrich or enlarge upon its facilities and programs in accordance with the direction of the donors and acceptable to the administrative officials of the university.b. To act as trustee, escrow, or disbursing agent with respect to any endowment, gift, grants, contributions, or bequests made for the benefit of fayetteville state university, its students, faculty, and staff, under the terms of the trustor or donor, and to carry on such functions as will accomplish the purpose and intent of the gift, endowment, trust, or grant.c. To sponsor, encourage, conduct, and render financial assistance in student aid programs, alumni events, public relations activities, faculty supplements, curriculum enrichment programs, research projects, and studies as approved by the proper authorities of the university.
$2,939,842 spentof which $968,486 as grants$131,680 earned by the program100% of program spendingFsu housing foundation llc, a wholly owned subsidiary, operates a student housing facility. Its purpose is to own and manage off-campus housing specifically for students of fayetteville state university. This ensures that students have access to quality housing options that meet their needs while attending the university.
$1,345,278 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,939,842.
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 $21M to $24M (+14%).
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.
45% of FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Mr Omar Bell
Executive director
Board chair
Mr John Ben Brown
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $119k → $2.8M.
11 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY 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
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 55% · 2019 60% · 2020 28% · 2021 35% · 2022 92% · 2023 69% — 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
23% of FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY 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
Organizations like FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Fayetteville State University Student Housing Foundation LLC · disregarded
- Fayetteville State University · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,835,278 to it, the largest being ANONYMOUS TRUST U/A DATED 2-4-2008 ($8,336,800). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $10,835,278 in grants to FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- ANONYMOUS TRUST U/A DATED 2-4-2008 is the largest funder on record, with $8,336,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 30 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