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THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC
THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,652,237 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($1,721,147). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $37M
What The Robert W Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center Inc does
Mission
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library partners with member academic institutions of the AUC: Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College, providing information management, instruction and access to a variety of global information resources acquired and organized in support of teaching and learning, scholarship and cultural preservation of the Atlanta University Center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Established in 1982, the Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library serves more than 9,300 undergraduate and graduate students from three Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College. The Library is committed to delivering exceptional information management, instructional support, research consultation, and access to globally curated resources that foster academic achievement and faculty excellence. The Library maintains an extensive holding of volumes, serials, periodicals, microfilm, and electronic databases, including special collections and archives rich in African American and African Diaspora materials. Principle activities include reference and research consultation services; curriculum-centric-instruction; acquisition, organization, arrangement, dissemination, and preservation of information in all formats; and interlibrary loan services. In FY25, the Library held approximately 105,000 repository records through the modernization of the Repository of AUC Digital Collections, Archives, and Research (RADAR). The Library is responsible for the provision of information technology…
$10,368,336 spentof which $5,466 as grants$11,953,676 earned by the program87% of program spendingWoodruff Foundation Expanding Capacity for Cultural Preservation and Programming Project Grant Overall Purpose: The Expanding Capacity for Cultural Preservation and Programming Project will complete the expansion of archival storage areas and realize the evolved role of the Exhibition Hall in learning. Once completed, the project will significantly improve and optimize archives storage spaces, and enhance the complementary active learning space for increased functionality and engagement with students, faculty and the broader community. The Expanding Capacity for Cultural Preservation and Programming Project has two major components: (1) expansion and updating of archival storage capacity; and (2) enhancement of the complementary exhibition hall active learning space where programming, scholarship, learning, teaching, and utilizing archival and other Library resources is amplified. Benefits for retrofitting current storage rooms and renovating onsite space include: - Consistent accessibility to all collections and uninterrupted service to patrons and staff - Complete control over the security and environment - Improved safety for archivists working with collections housed in the…
$167,893 spent1% of program spendingMellon Enhancing Institutional DI & Descriptive Practices Grant 2210-13949 - Between July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2025 the following notable activities occurred: 1) Worked with the vendor to configure and deploy the production server for the repository 2) Structured 183 collections (103,000 objects) and ingested associated metadata and files into the new repository 3) New repository launched and promoted in March 2025 4) Provisioned Dell/EMC dynamic tiered storage system in the library's datacenter 5) Completed reparative metadata project, drafted AUC Reparative Metadata Guidelines 6) Completed the terms of the grant and submitted the final report- March 2025
$111,292 spent1% of program spendingProgram activity #4 - see schedule o
$1,280,277 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,927,798.
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 2018 to 2019, from $38M to $36M (−6%).
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% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Dr Kimberley Bugg
CEO & Library Dir/Ex-Officio
Board chair
Dr David A Thomas
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $16k → $911k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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: $3.1M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Robert W Woodruff Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 91% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
58% of THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER 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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $327k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$220k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$100k
- Department of Justice$7k
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 THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Wl Acquisitions · disregarded
- Clark Atlanta University · exempt
- Morehouse College · exempt
- Spelman College · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC?
- THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,652,237 to it, the largest being President and Fellows of Harvard College ($1,721,147). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $3,652,237 in grants to THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC?
- President and Fellows of Harvard College is the largest funder on record, with $1,721,147 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ROBERT W WOODRUFF LIBRARY OF THE ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 7 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