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LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,863,818 to it, the largest being COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ($523,712). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
35
Grants received
$2.9M
Net assets
$8.5M
24/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Langston University Foundation does

Mission

To raise money to support langston university.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Langston university school and department support: the Langston University Foundation solicits donations to support the various schools, programs of study, and departments at langston university to assist the faculty in providing the highest quality of education to their students.

    $531,552 spentof which $531,552 as grants
    71% of program spending
  2. Scholarships: the Langston University Foundation solicits donations from alumni and friends of langston university for scholarships to support deserving students at langston university.

    $211,883 spentof which $211,883 as grants
    29% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $743,435.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($699k) Expenses 100 ($623k) Net assets 100 ($4.3M)2018 Revenue 118 ($828k) Expenses 89 ($554k) Net assets 108 ($4.7M)2019 Revenue 196 ($1.4M) Expenses 163 ($1.0M) Net assets 113 ($4.9M)2020 Revenue 154 ($1.1M) Expenses 155 ($966k) Net assets 116 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 197 ($1.4M) Expenses 143 ($889k) Net assets 140 ($6.1M)2022 Revenue 137 ($959k) Expenses 110 ($686k) Net assets 133 ($5.8M)2023 Revenue 207 ($1.4M) Expenses 107 ($668k) Net assets 156 ($6.8M)2024 Revenue 231 ($1.6M) Expenses 150 ($933k) Net assets 180 ($7.8M)2025 Revenue 173 ($1.2M) Expenses 168 ($1.0M) Net assets 195 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (168)Net assets (195)Peer revenue range

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 $5.0M to $6.1M (+21%).

$4.4M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$5.0M
$6.1M
$5.8M
$6.8M
$7.8M
$8.5M
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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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

108% of LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$76k
’17
$275k
’18
$355k
’19
$109k
’20
$491k
’21
$273k
’22
$781k
’23
$681k
’24
$164k
’25
29
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.

Chief executive

Joshua Busby

Interim executive director

Board chair

David Stephens

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed88898109910
Joined·+0+0+3+0+7+0+1+5
No longer listed·00215114
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 19 funders, grant income rose $20k → $1.2M.

6 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

56% 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 LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.

18%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 65% · 2019 63% · 2020 44% · 2021 17% · 2022 25% · 2023 40% — 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

57% of LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

60% of LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

MN
IL
NY
CT
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
OK
TX

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

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’22
’23
Oklahoma out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $529k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve29.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

State$6k
Top programs
  • Exhibitions,Shows,Spec.Events$6k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 17%Fundraising 12%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Oklahoma) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,863,818 to it, the largest being COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ($523,712). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,863,818 in grants to LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $523,712 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LANGSTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 35 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