Virginia · Nonprofit
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY (Virginia) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,598,946 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($30,060,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $246M
- Funders on record
- 130
- Grants received
- $58M
- Net assets
- $683M
What Hampton University does
Mission
Hampton University is a comprehensive institution of higher education, dedicated to the promotion of learning, building of character and preparation of promising students for positions of leadership and service. Its curriculum emphasis is scientific and professional with a strong liberal arts undergirding. In carrying out its mission, the university requires that everything that it does be of the highest quality. Research and public service are integral parts of hampton's mission. In order to enhance scholarship and discovery, faculty are engaged in writing, research, and grantsmanship. Faculty, staff and students provide leadership and service to the university as well as the global community. In achieving its mission, Hampton University offers exemplary programs and opportunities which enable students, faculty and staff to grow, develop and contribute to our society in a productive, useful manner.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional and departmental research - the educational goals set up for our students are through various instructional divisions and departmental research.
$79,859,895 spentof which $1,582,213 as grants$97,722,157 earned by the program42% of program spendingPublic services - Hampton University has an off campus work-study program for students, urban affairs and other community related projects.
$7,211,110 spent4% of program spendingLibrary and museums - the libraries and museums provide and display educational materials and provide support services to the academic community.
$13,085,221 spent7% of program spendingHampton University proton therapy institute (hupti) - the university owns and operates a facility that provides proton therapy treatment as a cutting-edge technology in the fight against cancer and provide opportunities for research.
$63,047,862 spent$83,530,709 earned by the program33% of program spendingStudent services - all offices which render services to the emotional well-being of our students: vice president for student affairs, dean of admissions, registrar, testing, etc.
$26,033,213 spent14% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $189,237,301.
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 $779M to $894M (+15%).
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 16% · 2018 15% · 2019 14% · 2020 16% · 2021 37% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of HAMPTON UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Mr Wesley A Coleman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $862k → $5.5M.
36 of 130 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 HAMPTON UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 130 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
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 HAMPTON UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 46% · 2019 37% · 2020 90% · 2021 16% · 2022 29% · 2023 37% — 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
43% of HAMPTON UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
62% of HAMPTON UNIVERSITY'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 $22M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY's revenue grew 21% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding HAMPTON UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $267.1M on record.
- Department of Education$170.6M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$31.3M
- National Science Foundation$24.4M
- Department of Health and Human Services$17.4M
- Department of Defense$11.1M
- Department of Energy$8.1M
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 HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Hampton Roads Proton Therapy Institute at Hampton University LLC · disregarded
- Atlantic Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- Hampton University Museum Foundation Inc · exempt
- Hampton Community Development Corporation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY?
- HAMPTON UNIVERSITY (Virginia) receives grants from 130 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,598,946 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($30,060,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HAMPTON UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 130 organizations giving $57,598,946 in grants to HAMPTON UNIVERSITY, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAMPTON UNIVERSITY?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $30,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAMPTON UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 130 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