Georgia · Nonprofit
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc (Georgia) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,394,954 to it, the largest being Clayco Foundation ($1,075,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $953M
- Funders on record
- 181
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $2.1B
What Savannah College of Art and DesignInc does
Mission
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional expenditures -- these expenditures relate to providing education services to more than 18,000 students seeking undergraduate and graduate degrees. The university offers the bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of fine arts, master of arts, master of architecture, and master of urban design degrees. The university is accredited by the southern association of colleges & schools commission on colleges and the master of architecture degree program is additionally accredited by the national architectural accrediting board. The undergraduate interior design program is additionally accredited domestically by the council for interior design accreditation. Approximately 4,200 students graduated and were awarded degrees during the reporting period.
$276,139,352 spentof which $406,999 as grants$718,475,713 earned by the program47% of program spendingStudent aid -- the university provides scholarships and other financial assistance directly from the institution.
$212,575,683 spentof which $181,042,328 as grants36% of program spendingCampus services, student housing, food service expenditures -- these expenditures represent the cost of services necessary to support the mission of the university, including student housing, dining services and other auxiliary services. The services are available to all students.
$104,672,091 spent$143,045,719 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $593,387,126.
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 $2.1B to $2.3B (+12%).
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 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Savannah College of Art and DesignInc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Michael Metzner MD
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 50 funders, grant income rose $500k → $655k.
31 of 181 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Savannah College of Art and DesignInc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 181 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
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
54% 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 Savannah College of Art and DesignInc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 28% · 2019 31% · 2020 38% · 2021 38% · 2022 22% · 2023 15% — 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
22% of Savannah College of Art and DesignInc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding Savannah College of Art and DesignInc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44.5M on record — $44.4M federal, $44k state.
- Department of Education$44.3M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$198k
- DISTRIBUTION TO INDIVIDUALS$44k
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 Savannah College of Art and DesignInc
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Savannah Media Support Services LLC · disregarded
- Acorn Hangar LLC · disregarded
- Acorn Leasing Company LLC · disregarded
- Scad Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Museum Cafe LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Savannah College of Art and DesignInc: 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 Savannah College of Art and DesignInc?
- Savannah College of Art and DesignInc (Georgia) receives grants from 181 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,394,954 to it, the largest being Clayco Foundation ($1,075,000). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Savannah College of Art and DesignInc have?
- IRS filings report 181 organizations giving $6,394,954 in grants to Savannah College of Art and DesignInc, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Savannah College of Art and DesignInc?
- Clayco Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Savannah College of Art and DesignInc 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.
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 181 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