Florida · Nonprofit
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,550,321 to it, the largest being EM Lynn Foundation ($3,728,000). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 43 funders to 85 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Churches Homes Foundation Incportfolio match
- Albert Harris Twportfolio match
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.
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 85 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $3.3M.
32 of 189 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $787k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Charles A Dana Law Center Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money STETSON UNIVERSITY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 189 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
STETSON UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
44% 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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 27% · 2019 21% · 2020 13% · 2021 36% · 2022 12% · 2023 12% — 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
57% of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
56% of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
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 189 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 141 organizations that share your funders
- Churches Homes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert Harris Twportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William Searls Scholarship Fund First National Bank Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irene S Wischer Education Foundation #FA945portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John B & Brownie Young Memorial Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of the United States Navy Fuportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Ernest Wentcher Educational Fundshared fundersIL · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 168 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $32.3M on record — $26.7M federal, $5.6M state.
- Department of Education$18.1M
- National Science Foundation$5.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- Department of Justice$1.2M
- FL$5.6M
- NJ$58k
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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gsh Investments LLC · disregarded
- The Charles a Dana Law Center Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STETSON UNIVERSITY 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.
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 STETSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- STETSON UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 189 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,550,321 to it, the largest being EM Lynn Foundation ($3,728,000). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STETSON UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 189 organizations giving $32,550,321 in grants to STETSON UNIVERSITY INC, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STETSON UNIVERSITY INC?
- EM Lynn Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,728,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STETSON UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 189funders 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