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FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC

FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,311). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
5
Funders on record
$138k
Grants received
$167M
Net assets
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC's revenue grew 70% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−52% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($647k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($111M)2018 Revenue 111 ($717k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 87 ($96M)2019 Revenue 92 ($597k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 91 ($101M)2020 Revenue 114 ($736k) Expenses 116 ($1.4M) Net assets 108 ($119M)2021 Revenue 112 ($726k) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 109 ($120M)2022 Revenue 142 ($918k) Expenses 124 ($1.5M) Net assets 119 ($132M)2023 Revenue 126 ($813k) Expenses 103 ($1.3M) Net assets 108 ($120M)2024 Revenue 144 ($929k) Expenses 124 ($1.5M) Net assets 119 ($132M)2025 Revenue 170 ($1.1M) Expenses 138 ($1.7M) Net assets 151 ($167M)
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Revenue (170)Expenses (138)Net assets (151)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$563k
17
$488k
18
$609k
19
$664k
20
$474k
21
$582k
22
$437k
23
$571k
24
$571k
25
0.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $29k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)91% 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC’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

FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

91% 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 FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC.

45%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 74%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

91% of FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Kansas funders.

KS
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC

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 Kansas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 7 related entities

  • Ksu Foundation · exempt
  • Ksu Golf Course Mgmt · exempt
  • Ksu Charitable Real Estate Foundation · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (75) · corp_trust
  • The 1880 Kimball Office Condominium Association · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY 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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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 FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC?
FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,720 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($61,311). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $137,720 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,311 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR ENGINEERING AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 5funders 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