Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,323,381 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ($1,207,365). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundationinc does
Mission
Assist and further research at georgia southern university
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation assists, supports, and furthers the research, service, and educational missions of georgia southern university.
$17,265,452 spentof which $17,247,576 as grants$100,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,265,452.
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 2023 to 2024, from $22M to $42M (+93%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 31% · 2019 47% · 2020 48% · 2021 58% · 2022 52% · 2023 78% · 2024 93% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (52% 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
Carl Reiber
CEO
Board chair
Kyle Marrero
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $77k → $1.0M.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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: $144k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Seattle Children's Hospital). These are real filings, and they are not money GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC raised.
From the IRS filings of GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC’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
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 60% · 2021 49% · 2022 21% · 2023 48% — 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
40% of GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 78 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 78 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 2 related entities
- Herty Advanced Materials · disregarded
- Logistics Technology Innovation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC?
- GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC (Georgia) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,323,381 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ($1,207,365). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,323,381 in grants to GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC?
- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES is the largest funder on record, with $1,207,365 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC 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 23 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