Florida · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,436,957 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ($1,074,565). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $105M
What University of Florida Research Foundation Inc does
Mission
To assist the university of florida in funding of research & development through grants & contractual arrangements & in the commercialization of intellectual properties, which include inventions, discoveries, processes, & work products.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cost incurred in obtaining licenses and grants for the university of florida research foundation activities.
$31,075,725 spent$43,211,024 earned by the program59% of program spendingCosts incurred in securing and providing research and development funding for the university of florida.
$13,469,093 spentof which $12,478,468 as grants26% of program spendingCosts incurred in the licensing of patented or patentable products developed by the unversity of florida.
$8,067,985 spent$2,865,205 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $52,612,803.
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 $125M to $175M (+40%).
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.
0% of UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
David P Norton
President/chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $125k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 13% 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
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 39% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Florida Research Consortium Inc · exempt
- University of Florida · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC?
- UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,436,957 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ($1,074,565). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,436,957 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC?
- THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,074,565 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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 8 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