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RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,974,639 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($3,684,400). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.8M
Funders on record
62
Grants received
$9.0M
Net assets
$112M
33/62 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Radford University Foundation Inc does

Mission

To support radford university

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. University support: purchase of equipment and supplies for the colleges and departments capital upgrade of the university's facilities and baseball field payments to supplement university personnel salaries and benefits speakers for and sponsorship of university events

    $2,631,786 spentof which $1,098,652 as grants$294,275 earned by the program
    47% of program spending
  2. Scholarships and special awards: benefitting students and faculty members of radford university

    $2,927,408 spentof which $2,927,408 as grants
    53% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,559,194.

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 ($9.1M) Expenses 100 ($4.9M) Net assets 100 ($74M)2018 Revenue 158 ($14M) Expenses 98 ($4.8M) Net assets 112 ($83M)2019 Revenue 110 ($10.0M) Expenses 97 ($4.8M) Net assets 115 ($85M)2020 Revenue 190 ($17M) Expenses 98 ($4.8M) Net assets 115 ($85M)2021 Revenue 145 ($13M) Expenses 124 ($6.1M) Net assets 138 ($102M)2022 Revenue 98 ($8.9M) Expenses 115 ($5.6M) Net assets 123 ($91M)2023 Revenue 89 ($8.1M) Expenses 122 ($6.0M) Net assets 128 ($95M)2024 Revenue 79 ($7.2M) Expenses 123 ($6.1M) Net assets 141 ($105M)2025 Revenue 20 ($1.8M) Expenses 137 ($6.7M) Net assets 151 ($112M)
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Revenue (20)Expenses (137)Net assets (151)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 2017 to 2018, from $77M to $118M (+54%).

$77M
$118M
$121M
$120M
$122M
$106M
$111M
$119M
$126M
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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

342% of RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.2M
’17
$9.5M
’18
$5.2M
’19
$12M
’20
$7.1M
’21
$3.2M
’22
$2.0M
’23
$1.1M
’24
−$4.9M
’25
2.2
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.

Chief executive

John F Cox Jr

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Jay Kenslow

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed212020202019232120
Joined·+8+2+5+0+3+12+2+4
No longer listed·92504845
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $176k → $1.3M.

19 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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

RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC.

41%
largest funder
62%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 72% · 2021 61% · 2022 47% · 2023 63% — 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

32% of RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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

RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 17 states in all.

MN
IL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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

RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−267% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−18% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like RADFORD UNIVERSITY 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

18
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 19 related entities

  • Radford University Foundation Real Estate Management LLC · disregarded
  • Ruf 915 Tyler Ave LLC · disregarded
  • Ruf 905 Tyler Ave LLC · disregarded
  • Ruf 613 Downey Street LLC · disregarded
  • Ruf 705 Davis Street LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,974,639 to it, the largest being Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc ($3,684,400). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $8,974,639 in grants to RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $3,684,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RADFORD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 62 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