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HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY

HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,581,708 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($8,753,059). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$29M
Funders on record
87
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
$60M
43/87 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Huston-Tillotson University does

Mission

Hutson-tillotson university nutures a legacy of leadership and excellence in educationconnecting knowledge power passion and values

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Instruction college level instruction education provided to students academic support operation of library learning assistance center career ands other supportive programs providedto the center student services operation of offices and personnel for registrar, financial aid, admissions recruitment, chaplan and health service provided to students scholarships

    $11,211,470 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,211,470.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($21M) Expenses 100 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($25M)2018 Revenue 103 ($22M) Expenses 101 ($21M) Net assets 102 ($25M)2019 Revenue 105 ($22M) Expenses 96 ($20M) Net assets 114 ($28M)2020 Revenue 127 ($27M) Expenses 97 ($21M) Net assets 142 ($35M)2021 Revenue 225 ($47M) Expenses 114 ($24M) Net assets 237 ($58M)2023 Revenue 140 ($29M) Expenses 145 ($31M) Net assets 247 ($61M)2024 Revenue 136 ($29M) Expenses 147 ($31M) Net assets 243 ($60M)
2017201820192020202120232024
Revenue (136)Expenses (147)Net assets (243)

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 $55M to $63M (+13%).

$46M
$46M
$50M
$55M
$63M
$64M
$64M
2017201820192020202120232024
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
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 23% · 2021 16% · 2023 20% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$160k
’17
$347k
’18
$1.8M
’19
$6.2M
’20
$23M
’21
−$1.3M
’23
−$2.4M
’24
3.6
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.

2017201820192020202120232024
Listed222225265514
Joined·+8+21+4+2·+11
No longer listed·818323·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $2.8M.

17 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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

HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

80% 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 HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY.

47%
largest funder
65%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 56% · 2019 52% · 2020 28% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 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

30% of HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 16 states in all.

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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

Government funding HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50.8M on record.

Federal$50.8M
grants $50.8Mcontracts $0
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18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$48.4M
  • National Science Foundation$890k
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k
  • Department of the Interior$610k

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 HUSTON-TILLOTSON 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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

36% of spending goes to programs.

Program 36%Management 64%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 9 states

TX

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Questions and answers

Who funds HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY?
HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY (Texas) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,581,708 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($8,753,059). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $18,581,708 in grants to HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY?
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,753,059 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 87 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