Louisiana · Nonprofit
LSU FOUNDATION
LSU FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,050,066 to it, the largest being William A Brookshire Foundation ($10,960,000). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121M
- Funders on record
- 183
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $853M
What Lsu Foundation does
Mission
The Lsu Foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic and research activities: operational support expenses to supplement state funding and aid the academic colleges of the university as well as the agricultural center in accomplishing lsu's mission.
$25,445,280 spentof which $16,420,006 as grants45% of program spendingScholarships and fellowships - financial support to undergraduate and graduate students through approximately 2,278 available scholarships and fellowships.
$11,041,514 spentof which $10,973,027 as grants20% of program spendingChairs and professorships: expenses to directly support the scholarly activities of over 920 specifically designated chairs and professorships available to lsu's distinguished faculty.
$6,760,005 spentof which $5,516,328 as grants12% of program spendingOther program services include: (1) salary support for academic purposes, (2) institution-wide academic programs, such as lecture series and hosting visiting scholars, (3) service awards for outstanding faculty and professional staff, (4) travel to national and international business seminars and conferences by university faculty and staff of academic units, (5) institutional advancement, (6) capital outlay including the acquisition of equipment and construction of facilities for use in the academic research endeavors of the university.
$12,700,742 spentof which $6,601,778 as grants23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,947,541.
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 $668M to $804M (+20%).
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.
68% of LSU FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Robert M Stuart Jr
President & CEO
Board chair
Roger Jenkins
Director; chair to 12/31/24)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 45 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $8.5M.
28 of 183 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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: $43M from 26 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Louisiana Children's Medical Center). These are real filings, and they are not money LSU FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LSU FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 183 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
LSU FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 LSU FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 34% · 2019 32% · 2020 27% · 2021 36% · 2022 41% · 2023 44% — 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
49% of LSU FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
LSU FOUNDATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 30 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
LSU FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding LSU FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$15k
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 LSU FOUNDATION
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- University House L3c · disregarded
- Cook Legacy LLC · disregarded
- Lsu Property Foundation · exempt
- Lsu Real Estate and Facilities Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LSU FOUNDATION: 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 LSU FOUNDATION?
- LSU FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 183 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,050,066 to it, the largest being William A Brookshire Foundation ($10,960,000). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LSU FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 183 organizations giving $46,050,066 in grants to LSU FOUNDATION, 108 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LSU FOUNDATION?
- William A Brookshire Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,960,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LSU FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 183 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