North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC
UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,859,888 to it, the largest being HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($10,043,085). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $246M
What Uncg Excellence Foundation Inc does
Mission
The mission of the uncg excellence foundation is to conduct fundraising programs and activities; to invest and manage foundation resources in a responsible manner that balances growth and support for designated university programs; and to develop interest in and support for the university within the corporate, foundation, and political arenas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Uncg scholarship, departmental and professorships
$7,605,791 spentof which $7,605,791 as grants99% of program spendingWeatherspoon art museum council
$86,272 spentof which $86,272 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,692,063.
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 $158M to $202M (+28%).
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.
28% of UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC’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. 1 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
Brad Morton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $2.7M → $426k.
15 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $6.9M from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greensboro Jewish Federation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 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
UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 61% · 2019 97% · 2020 65% · 2021 83% · 2022 51% · 2023 25% — 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 UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
86% of UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro · exempt
- Weatherspoon Art Museum Council · exempt
- The University of Nc at Greensboro Investment Fund Inc · exempt
- Capital Facilities Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC?
- UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,859,888 to it, the largest being HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($10,043,085). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $18,859,888 in grants to UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC?
- HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $10,043,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 46 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