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SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING

SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.2M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$5k
Net assets
$1.5M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Society for College & University Planning does

Mission

The society for college and university planning develops individual and organizational capacities to strengthen and transform institutions of higher education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conferences - delivery of the society's annual international conference in person this year. Attendance was approximately 500 participants. 6 regional conferences all held in person.

    $2,225,920 spentof which $29,085 as grants$1,885,421 earned by the program
    65% of program spending

  2. Membership - provision of membership services to approximately 4000 members, both individual and group memberships from colleges and universities and private sector organizations that deliver services to those colleges and universities.

    $488,776 spent$1,522,609 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

  3. Professional development - delivery of a planning institute emphasizing an understanding of the principles and procedures of comprehensive, integrated strategic planning.

    $481,154 spent$219,961 earned by the program
    14% of program spending

  4. Publications - develops, publishes and sells books, cds, audio cassettes, videos, white papers, and a quarterly journal, planning for higher education, available to members and others.

    $239,609 spent$8,353 earned by the program
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,435,459.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 103 ($4.7M) Expenses 104 ($4.6M) Net assets 113 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 104 ($4.8M) Expenses 107 ($4.7M) Net assets 115 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 56 ($2.6M) Expenses 77 ($3.4M) Net assets 64 ($940k)2021 Revenue 54 ($2.5M) Expenses 61 ($2.7M) Net assets 66 ($965k)2022 Revenue 99 ($4.5M) Expenses 91 ($4.0M) Net assets 86 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 92 ($4.2M) Expenses 94 ($4.1M) Net assets 118 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 112 ($5.2M) Expenses 122 ($5.4M) Net assets 116 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 92 ($4.2M) Expenses 103 ($4.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (92)Expenses (103)Net assets (100)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.1M to $3.7M (+20%).

$2.7M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$2.3M
$2.7M
$3.1M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$3.1M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$206k
’17
$154k
’18
$78k
’19
−$811k
’20
−$197k
’21
$534k
’22
$103k
’23
−$211k
’24
−$303k
’25
3.0
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.

Board chair

Chris Gilmer

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151514141414151416
Joined·+4+2+3+3+2+3+3+3
No longer listed·43332241
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING’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.

Where its funders are

SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state in all.

IN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Government funding SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.

State$4k
08
12
Top programs
  • Membership in Organizations$3k
  • Registration - Agency Direct$195

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 SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING

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 Michigan

Presidents Council State Universities of Michigan80%Association for Advancing Physician and Provider Recruitment79%Society of Manufacturing Engineers78%American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers78%Michigan Interscholastic Press Association77%Michigan Community College Association77%Strategic Community Partners Inc77%Michigan Society of Architects77%

Nationally

Educause84%American College Personnel Association83%Strategic Management Society Inc83%Career Education Colleges and Universities82%Society for Scholarly Publishing82%Society of Government Meeting Professionals Inc (Sgmp)82%Society of Professional Journalists82%Society for Corporate Governance Inc82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 24%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING: 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 SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING?
SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Lumina Foundation for Education Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING?
Lumina Foundation for Education Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PLANNING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 1 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