Texas · Nonprofit
Paul Quinn College
Paul Quinn College (Texas) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,923,212 to it, the largest being Cabin Road Foundation dated April 4 2011 ($20,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Paul Quinn College holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education 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.
- The Addy Foundationshared funderslocal
- Carrigan Family Foundationportfolio match
- Keybank Community Trust Taportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 25% · 2019 17% · 2020 28% · 2021 48% · 2022 53% · 2023 34% · 2024 12% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of Paul Quinn College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $273k → $870k.
16 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Paul Quinn College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
Paul Quinn College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 Paul Quinn College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 53% · 2019 51% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 19% · 2023 20% — 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
30% of Paul Quinn College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
Paul Quinn College draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 22 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
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 71 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Addy Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 167 organizations near you
- Carrigan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keybank Community Trust Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr Maya Angelou Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sherman Rotary Club Charitable and Scholarship Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Edgar Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lake Forest Knights of Columbus Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Moscrip Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillcrest Foundationshared funderslocalTX · backs 76 organizations that share your funders · funds 220 organizations near you
- United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Incshared funderslocalTX · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 391 organizations near you
- The Rees-Jones Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Ascendium Education Solutions Incshared fundersWI · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
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 Paul Quinn College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $51.6M on record.
- Department of Education$48.6M
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
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 Paul Quinn College
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- We over me · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Paul Quinn College: 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.
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 Paul Quinn College?
- Paul Quinn College (Texas) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,923,212 to it, the largest being Cabin Road Foundation dated April 4 2011 ($20,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Paul Quinn College have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $32,923,212 in grants to Paul Quinn College, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Paul Quinn College?
- Cabin Road Foundation dated April 4 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $20,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Paul Quinn College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 71funders 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