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NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($446,299). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$3.9M
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$49M
13/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What North Carolina State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provides financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.

    $1,840,235 spentof which $1,114,041 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,840,235.

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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 178 ($3.8M) Expenses 104 ($1.9M) Net assets 109 ($25M)2019 Revenue 118 ($2.5M) Expenses 102 ($1.9M) Net assets 117 ($27M)2020 Revenue 182 ($3.9M) Expenses 86 ($1.6M) Net assets 127 ($30M)2021 Revenue 139 ($3.0M) Expenses 152 ($2.8M) Net assets 164 ($38M)2022 Revenue 180 ($3.8M) Expenses 93 ($1.7M) Net assets 173 ($40M)2023 Revenue 119 ($2.5M) Expenses 115 ($2.1M) Net assets 174 ($40M)2024 Revenue 160 ($3.4M) Expenses 118 ($2.2M) Net assets 193 ($45M)2025 Revenue 181 ($3.9M) Expenses 123 ($2.3M) Net assets 213 ($49M)
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Revenue (181)Expenses (123)Net assets (213)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 $30M to $39M (+29%).

$24M
$26M
$28M
$30M
$39M
$41M
$41M
$45M
$50M
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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

65% of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 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.

$276k
’17
$1.9M
’18
$622k
’19
$2.3M
’20
$151k
’21
$2.1M
’22
$409k
’23
$1.2M
’24
$1.6M
’25
48
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.

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Listed363637363733292528
Joined·+6+8+5+2+3+2+3+4
No longer listed·67617671
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $70k → $124k.

11 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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: $8.3M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nc State Investment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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

92% 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 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC.

35%
largest funder
59%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 51% · 2019 27% · 2020 64% · 2021 56% · 2022 52% · 2023 72% — 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

46% of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC'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 $286k that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 10 states.

IL
NY
CT
RI
CA
DE
AR
NC
DC
TX

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $976k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin41% · top quartile
Months of reserve48.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 2%Fundraising 17%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 12 related entities

  • North Carolina State University Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Nc State Investment Fund Inc · exempt
  • The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc · exempt
  • North Carolina State University · exempt
  • Nc State University Alumni Association Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC?
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,261,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($446,299). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,261,200 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $446,299 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 25 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