Georgia · Nonprofit
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,941,556 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($1,575,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of ksurf is to serve ksu as a cooperative organization in order to promote research and the development of intellectual property for the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation secures gifts, contributions, and grants from individuals, private organizations, and public agencies and obtains contracts with such individuals or entities for the performance of sponsored research, development, education, or other programs by the various colleges, schools, departments, or other units of the university. Research grants awarded to the foundation are primarily subcontracted to the university.
$18,775,475 spentof which $17,426,657 as grants$17,458,431 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,775,475.
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 $6.2M to $9.6M (+55%).
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 46% · 2018 46% · 2019 50% · 2020 42% · 2021 22% · 2022 18% · 2023 8% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% 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.
Chief executive
Ivan Pulinkala
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Kathy Schwaig
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $571k → $895k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $545k from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University of Pittsburgh). These are real filings, and they are not money KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 54% · 2019 28% · 2020 26% · 2021 43% · 2022 50% · 2023 45% — 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
20% of KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40.4M on record.
- National Science Foundation$23.4M
- Department of Education$9.2M
- Department of Energy$3.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.3M
- Department of Defense$1.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$654k
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 KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Kennesaw State University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE 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 KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC?
- KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,941,556 to it, the largest being THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC ($1,575,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $5,941,556 in grants to KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATION INC?
- THE MARCUS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE 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 33 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