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Florida State University
Florida State University (Florida) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,846,971 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($771,243,284). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Extension Foundationportfolio match
- American Floral Endowmentportfolio match
- Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarshipportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Florida State University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
Florida State University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
How long its funders stay
61% of Florida State University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
61% of Florida State University's grant income comes from Florida funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Extension Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Floral Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of Centralportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americaviewportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Genetic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Project Apis M Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parkinson Voice Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald Danforth Plant Science Centerportfolio 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.
Government funding Florida State University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8B on record — $1.7B federal, $66.9M state.
- National Science Foundation$603.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$482.8M
- Department of Education$292.2M
- Department of Defense$181.6M
- Department of Energy$80.8M
- Agency for International Development$28.5M
- FL$66.6M
- MA$192k
- VT$68k
- NJ$18k
- DE$12k
- OK$6k
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 Florida State University
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 Florida
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Florida State 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.
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 Florida State University?
- Florida State University (Florida) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $393,846,971 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($771,243,284). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Florida State University have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $393,846,971 in grants to Florida State University, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Florida State University?
- THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $771,243,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Florida State University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2023, and the filings of 93funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing