South Carolina · Nonprofit
THE LANDER FOUNDATION
THE LANDER FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,399,494 to it, the largest being MUFUKA PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($1,050,240). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.9M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $46M
What The Lander Foundation does
Mission
To receive, hold, manage, invest or arrange for investing and to acquire by gift, devise, bequest, purchase, or otherwise, and use property of any kind and funds in furtherance of the welfare of lander university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Invest in and manage in real estate- the organization acquires and manages property to be used for the welfare of the organization as well as lander university. These properties are primarily used for administration purposes, athletic facilities, student housing, and meeting spaces available to the public.
$1,795,819 spent63% of program spendingScholarships- The Lander Foundation provides funds through scholarships to students in need.
$847,290 spentof which $847,290 as grants30% of program spendingFaculty and staff development and research- the foundation faculty and staff development committee receives and reviews proposals and awards grants regarding needs of the university, such as faculty and staff.
$208,309 spentof which $208,309 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,851,418.
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.
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 $38M to $45M (+19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Steve Wohlwend
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $151k → $89k.
10 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $80k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Self Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LANDER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LANDER FOUNDATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE LANDER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 THE LANDER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 80% · 2019 94% · 2020 37% · 2021 42% · 2022 33% · 2023 28% — 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
45% of THE LANDER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
THE LANDER FOUNDATION draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $813k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Organizations like THE LANDER 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Lander Rws Properties LLC · disregarded
- Lander Foundation Properties LLC · disregarded
- Bearcat Village LLC · disregarded
- Lander University · exempt
- Lander University Alumni Association · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LANDER FOUNDATION: 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 THE LANDER FOUNDATION?
- THE LANDER FOUNDATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,399,494 to it, the largest being MUFUKA PRIVATE FOUNDATION ($1,050,240). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LANDER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,399,494 in grants to THE LANDER FOUNDATION, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LANDER FOUNDATION?
- MUFUKA PRIVATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LANDER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 23 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