North Carolina · Nonprofit
JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY
JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,935,751 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($62,146,663). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- The Olga D Rasmussen Awardportfolio match
- E Brink Trust Uw Scholarship Fundportfolio match
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.
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 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 22% · 2021 27% · 2022 15% · 2023 26% · 2024 16% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY’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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $368k → $19M.
13 of 82 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: $23M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 65% · 2019 91% · 2020 76% · 2021 76% · 2022 83% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
91% of JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 82 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- The Olga D Rasmussen Awardportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Brink Trust Uw Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert Harris Twportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gould Norman & Anna Schol Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Forman S Acton Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Finley Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enactusportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Associated Colleges of the South Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ty Cobb Educational Fd Tr Uaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $85.2M on record — $85.2M federal, $23k state.
- Department of Education$72.1M
- Department of Commerce$5.7M
- National Science Foundation$2.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Department of the Interior$1.1M
- Department of Homeland Security$1.0M
- FEDERAL$23k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$175
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 JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY?
- JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,935,751 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($62,146,663). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $77,935,751 in grants to JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY?
- THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $62,146,663 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 82funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing