Georgia · Nonprofit
Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc
Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,783,272 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,235,745). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $149M
What Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Georgia Southern University Foundation, Inc. was created to raise private funding to meet certain educational and institutional needs at Georgia Southern University not addressed by state allocations. The Foundation's primary mission is to "promote the cause of higher education" by assisting Georgia Southern University in fulfilling its multifaceted mission: -To support cultural opportunities, economic growth, environmental quality, scientific and technological progress, and social and personal well-being. -To graduate knowledgeable, clear-thinking, articulate students. -To expand horizons through outreach in sciences and liberal arts, preservation of distinctive cultural legacies, and attention to the integrity of south Georgia's environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The georgia southern university foundation exists to assist georgia southern university in fulfilling its multifaceted mission and its efforts to achieve educational excellence. The foundation primarily accomplishes this mission by providing leadership in obtaining the resources needed to attain university goals and through responsible stewardship of funds and other assets entrusted to it. The georgia southern university foundation raises, invests, and distributes private dollars needed to fund the programs, projects, scholarships, equipment, and buildings that help georgia southern university barn and maintain a reputation for excellence.
$9,665,703 spentof which $7,221,878 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,665,703.
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 $89M to $120M (+34%).
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.
59% of Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Julie Gerbsch
Executive Director of Development
Board chair
Stephen Milner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $140k → $1.0M.
19 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.0M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Georgia Southern University Athletic Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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
Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
62% 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 Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 37% · 2019 37% · 2020 25% · 2021 50% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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
38% of Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
80% of Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Georgia Southern University Foundation Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- Georgia Southern University Foundation Real Estate Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Georgia Southern University Foundation Botanical Gardens Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- Georgia Southern University Foundation Guyton Real Estate LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Georgia Southern University Foundation 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc?
- Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,783,272 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,235,745). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $6,783,272 in grants to Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,235,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Georgia Southern University Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 70 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing