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STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC

STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,299,285 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($504,973). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$16M
Revenue FY2024
30
Funders on record
$2.3M
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
13/30 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programSTEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$31M

Recipients

2

Contributions on record

$2.7M

Donors on record

32

Payments out run 11.4x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

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 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($5.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.9M) Net assets 100 ($43M)2018 Revenue 108 ($6.0M) Expenses 149 ($2.8M) Net assets 148 ($64M)2019 Revenue 131 ($7.2M) Expenses 130 ($2.4M) Net assets 181 ($78M)2020 Revenue 310 ($17M) Expenses 194 ($3.6M) Net assets 226 ($98M)2021 Revenue 388 ($21M) Expenses 308 ($5.7M) Net assets 266 ($115M)2022 Revenue 207 ($11M) Expenses 403 ($7.5M) Net assets 241 ($105M)2023 Revenue 257 ($14M) Expenses 376 ($7.0M) Net assets 278 ($121M)2024 Revenue 299 ($16M) Expenses 6046 ($112M) Net assets 37 ($16M)
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Revenue (299)Expenses (6046)Net assets (37)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.7M
17
$3.2M
18
$4.8M
19
$13M
20
$16M
21
$3.9M
22
$7.2M
23
$95M
24
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $205k → $221k.

18 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)85% 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: $319k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sfa Real Estate Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’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

85% of STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC'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 $356k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 7 states.

NY
OH
NJ
CT
MO
NC
TX

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

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis 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.

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. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

5% of spending goes to programs.

Program 5%Management 95%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

44%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: 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 STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,299,285 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($504,973). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $2,299,285 in grants to STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $504,973 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing