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SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY

SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY (Tennessee) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,737,815 to it, the largest being Adventist Health System Sunbelt ($42,145,866). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
43
Funders on record
$16M
Grants received
Net assets
28/43 repeat funders

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.

See all 10 prospects and why each one surfaced →
02Who funds it

How concentrated its funding is

SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

34%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

48% of SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 23 states in all.

ME
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.9M on record — $14.9M federal, $4k state.

Federal$14.9M
grants $14.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$14.5M
  • National Science Foundation$195k
  • Department of Energy$156k
State$4k
Top programs
  • FEDERAL$4k

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 SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY

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 Tennessee

Nationally

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY: 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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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 SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY?
SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY (Tennessee) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,737,815 to it, the largest being Adventist Health System Sunbelt ($42,145,866). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $15,737,815 in grants to SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY?
Adventist Health System Sunbelt is the largest funder on record, with $42,145,866 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOUTHERN ADVENTIST UNIVERSITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024, and the filings of 43funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing