Skip to content
Plinth
← Funding

West Virginia · Nonprofit

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION (West Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,542,725 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ($17,817,473). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$71M
Revenue FY2025
50
Funders on record
$32M
Grants received
$57M
Net assets
24/50 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION has grown faster than half of the 276 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 276 community improvement 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($36M) Expenses 100 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($48M)2018 Revenue 93 ($34M) Expenses 101 ($38M) Net assets 92 ($44M)2019 Revenue 98 ($36M) Expenses 102 ($38M) Net assets 87 ($42M)2020 Revenue 113 ($41M) Expenses 119 ($44M) Net assets 80 ($38M)2021 Revenue 153 ($56M) Expenses 128 ($48M) Net assets 93 ($45M)2022 Revenue 154 ($56M) Expenses 150 ($56M) Net assets 93 ($45M)2023 Revenue 169 ($62M) Expenses 163 ($61M) Net assets 95 ($45M)2024 Revenue 208 ($76M) Expenses 178 ($66M) Net assets 114 ($55M)2025 Revenue 194 ($71M) Expenses 183 ($68M) Net assets 120 ($57M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (194)Expenses (183)Net assets (120)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 68% · 2019 72% · 2020 79% · 2021 71% · 2022 86% · 2023 80% · 2024 80% · 2025 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 696 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$802k
17
$3.8M
18
$2.5M
19
$3.3M
20
$7.9M
21
$196k
22
$686k
23
$9.4M
24
$2.5M
25
1.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 12 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $2.9M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
$145k
funders
12
12
12
13
15
13
12
16
10

5 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)2% 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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

85% 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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION.

56%
largest funder
75%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 75% · 2019 78% · 2020 37% · 2021 39% · 2022 57% · 2023 64%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

33% of MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

77% of MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.

VT
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
DC
TX
FL

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $564k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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 50 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $228.2M on record.

Federal$228.2M
grants $204.3Mcontracts $23.9M
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$121.2M
  • Department of Education$27.4M
  • Department of Defense$21.7M
  • Department of Labor$13.9M
  • National Science Foundation$9.9M
  • Department of Homeland Security$7.2M

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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION

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 West Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

16
board members
13%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

84%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Marshall University · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

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 MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION?
MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION (West Virginia) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,542,725 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ($17,817,473). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $31,542,725 in grants to MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION?
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,817,473 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARSHALL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 50funders 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