Illinois · Nonprofit
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,322,770 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,805,090). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $70M
What Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation does
Mission
The siue foundation exists to support the mission, vision, and values of southern illinois university edwardsville. On behalf of the university, the foundation provides fundraising coordination and implementation, serves as the steward for contributions, produces donor receipts, conducts the decentralized annual fund drive programs, and upholds the highest standards of fiscal responsibility and investment management. These efforts are conducted in relation to the donors' expressed wishes as well as the instructional scholarship, and public services pursuits of the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advance and support siue:the siue foundation exists to support the mission, vision, and values of southern illinois university edwardsville. On behalf of the university, siue foundation provides fundraising coordination and implementation, serves as the steward for contributions, produces donor receipts, conducts the decentralized annual fund drive programs, and upholds the highest standards of fiscal responsibility and investment management. These efforts are conducted in relation to the donors' expressed wishes as well as instructional scholarship and public service pursuits of the university.
$3,513,112 spentof which $1,558,115 as grants$232,057 earned by the program66% of program spendingSiue student scholarships:scholarships and awards for students of siue : in fiscal year 2025, the siue foundation provided over $1,790,000 in scholarships and awards to almost 800 outstanding students. The siue foundation provides funding for scholarships and awards benefitting deserving siue students in support of their efforts to attain a quality education enabling them to launch their personal vision and provide a solid professional foundation to build upon during their lifetime. Through scholarship procedures established in each college, school, department, or unit, student applicants are evaluated using specific criteria for the particular scholarship or award established by the donor of the funds awarded.
$1,790,830 spentof which $1,790,830 as grants34% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,303,942.
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 2020 to 2021, from $51M to $62M (+22%).
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.
63% of SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Connie Collins
CEO, siue foundation
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $44k → $402k.
15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $37k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alumni Association of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville). These are real filings, and they are not money SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 87% · 2019 36% · 2020 24% · 2021 43% · 2022 36% · 2023 39% — 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
33% of SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
68% of SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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.
Against its field
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville · exempt
- Alumni Association of Siue · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION?
- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,322,770 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,805,090). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,322,770 in grants to SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,805,090 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 37 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