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FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC

FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,633,320 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$385k
2/4 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Friends of the University of Surrey Inc does

Mission

To support higher education services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide support for ernest littauer legacy.

    $898,988 spentof which $898,988 as grants
    86% of program spending
  2. To provide support for the surrey leaders programme - year 2.

    $94,552 spentof which $94,552 as grants
    9% of program spending
  3. To provide support for the burton scholarship.

    $15,200 spentof which $15,200 as grants
    1% of program spending
  4. To provide support for the following: - forever surrey fund- pickering scholarship in materials engineering- littauer awards & scholarship- research with the centre for speech, vision and signal processing (hilton)- gq max lu scholarship

    $39,901 spentof which $39,901 as grants
    4% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,048,641.

02The 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 ($118k) Expenses 100 ($238k) Net assets 100 ($27k)2018 Revenue 379 ($448k) Expenses 133 ($316k) Net assets 581 ($160k)2019 Revenue 670 ($792k) Expenses 394 ($937k) Net assets 53 ($15k)2020 Revenue 384 ($454k) Expenses 185 ($440k) Net assets 105 ($29k)2021 Revenue 692 ($818k) Expenses 6 ($15k) Net assets 3028 ($831k)2022 Revenue 211 ($250k) Expenses 406 ($967k) Net assets 415 ($114k)2023 Revenue 131 ($155k) Expenses 60 ($142k) Net assets 462 ($127k)2024 Revenue 1667 ($2.0M) Expenses 826 ($2.0M) Net assets 480 ($132k)2025 Revenue 1115 ($1.3M) Expenses 447 ($1.1M) Net assets 1403 ($385k)
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Revenue (1115)Expenses (447)Net assets (1403)Peer revenue range

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 $29k to $831k (+2793%).

$27k
$160k
$15k
$29k
$831k
$114k
$127k
$132k
$385k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

100% of FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$120k
’17
$132k
’18
−$145k
’19
$14k
’20
$803k
’21
−$717k
’22
$13k
’23
$5k
’24
$253k
’25
2.9
months of
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed87111210101111
Joined·+0+4+1+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·1002000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $1.5M.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
2
1
2
2
1
1

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY 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

FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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

96% 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 FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC.

92%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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

96% of FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY 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 $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 1 state.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

61%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC?
FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,633,320 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,633,320 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC?
TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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