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NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY (Virginia) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,069,346 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($41,078,396). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$13M
Revenue FY2024
63
Funders on record
$50M
Grants received
$121M
Net assets
29/63 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,063 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($34M)2018 Revenue 109 ($5.2M) Expenses 89 ($3.1M) Net assets 101 ($35M)2019 Revenue 91 ($4.4M) Expenses 118 ($4.0M) Net assets 119 ($41M)2020 Revenue 968 ($46M) Expenses 88 ($3.0M) Net assets 254 ($88M)2021 Revenue 201 ($9.7M) Expenses 108 ($3.7M) Net assets 301 ($104M)2022 Revenue 187 ($9.0M) Expenses 118 ($4.0M) Net assets 284 ($98M)2023 Revenue 163 ($7.8M) Expenses 193 ($6.6M) Net assets 317 ($109M)2024 Revenue 279 ($13M) Expenses 207 ($7.1M) Net assets 351 ($121M)
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Revenue (279)Expenses (207)Net assets (351)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.

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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

69% of NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
17
$2.2M
18
$322k
19
$43M
20
$6.0M
21
$5.0M
22
$1.2M
23
$6.3M
24
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months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $690k → $1.3M.

18 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)86% 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 NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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

NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

96% 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 NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY.

82%
largest funder
90%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 66% · 2019 59% · 2020 82% · 2021 96% · 2022 31% · 2023 38%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

42% of NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

86% of NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7.2M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Virginia funders.

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

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 63 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.

Organizations like NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY

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 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 13%Fundraising 3%

Governance

20
board members
90%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Marshall Avenue Properties Inc · disregarded
  • Shepherd's Village · disregarded
  • Norfolk State University · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY: 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 NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY?
NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY (Virginia) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,069,346 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($41,078,396). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY have?
IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $50,069,346 in grants to NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $41,078,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC AND SUBSIDIARY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 63funders 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