Mississippi · Nonprofit
Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College (Mississippi) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,028,931 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($8,478,627). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 98
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $114M
What Tougaloo College does
Mission
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To sustain a learning community in which students can prepare academically, socially and spiritually for leadership in a complex, diverse and rapidly changing world.
$26,482,375 spentof which $2,844,728 as grants$9,226,979 earned by the program90% of program spendingAuxiliary Enterprises support the Colleges mission of providing quality educational opportunities. These services include, but are not limited to food service, housing, campus post office, parking, vending, campus stores and athletics.
$2,892,472 spent$5,649,530 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,374,847.
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 $96M to $112M (+17%).
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 33% · 2018 31% · 2019 32% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 2023 39% · 2024 39% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of Tougaloo College’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. 2 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
Dr Blondean Davis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.2M.
22 of 98 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Tougaloo College’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 98 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
Tougaloo College leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 Tougaloo College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 40% · 2019 43% · 2020 30% · 2021 74% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% — 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
36% of Tougaloo College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
Tougaloo College draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 25 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
Tougaloo College is better cushioned than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Tougaloo College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $124.4M on record.
- Department of Education$77.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$32.8M
- National Science Foundation$5.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.7M
- National Archives and Records Administration$1.9M
- Department of the Interior$1.3M
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 Tougaloo College
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tougaloo College: 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 Tougaloo College?
- Tougaloo College (Mississippi) receives grants from 98 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,028,931 to it, the largest being UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ($8,478,627). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tougaloo College have?
- IRS filings report 98 organizations giving $26,028,931 in grants to Tougaloo College, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tougaloo College?
- UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,478,627 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tougaloo College find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 98 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