Georgia · Nonprofit
PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC
PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,930,630 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($1,732,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $112M
What Piedmont University Inc does
Mission
Piedmont university dedicates itself to the transformative power of education through reciprocal learning, the development of compassionate leaders, and the stewardship of our local and global communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition and fees - instructional programs support students to achieve their bachelor's, master's, and doctorate level of degrees.
$33,060,740 spentof which $15,692,192 as grants$43,000,026 earned by the program66% of program spendingStudent services - services provided benefiting students including food service, residence halls, and fitness center.
$10,022,225 spent$9,162,176 earned by the program20% of program spendingOther activities - activities in the support of the organization such as various sports and theatre camps, foundation support, and deposits.
$6,812,329 spent$473,545 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,895,294.
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 2024 to 2025, from $146M to $135M (−8%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Gus Arrendale
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $307k → $641k.
10 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
58% 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 PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 58% · 2019 48% · 2020 43% · 2021 35% · 2022 52% · 2023 58% — 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
50% of PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
59% of PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $885k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 26 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.0M on record.
- Department of Education$9.7M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$195k
- National Science Foundation$92k
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 PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC: 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 PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC?
- PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,930,630 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($1,732,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $5,930,630 in grants to PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC?
- Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,732,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIEDMONT UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 53 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