Georgia · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,839,024 to it, the largest being NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($14,121,610). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $27M
- Net assets
- $127M
What University of North Georgia Foundation Inc does
Mission
Support university of north georgia students, faculty, staff, and alumni and the related educational programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic and other program support - supplemental salary support, faculty development, and equipment support.
$6,178,033 spentof which $5,936,271 as grants41% of program spendingStudent services - funds for student financial aid and support of student life programs.
$4,557,409 spentof which $4,550,634 as grants30% of program spendingSupport for university of north georgia.
$4,479,172 spentof which $4,130,052 as grants29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,214,614.
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 $86M to $101M (+18%).
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.
72% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA 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. 3 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
Mr Jeff Tarnowski
CEO
Board chair
Mr Jack Elrod Iii
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $265k → $1.6M.
22 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 56% · 2019 91% · 2020 60% · 2021 85% · 2022 48% · 2023 17% — 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
48% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
69% of UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION 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 $8.3M that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Georgia, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $27M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA 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 Georgia
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
- University of North Georgia · exempt
- University of North Georgia Real Estate Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA 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 NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC?
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,839,024 to it, the largest being NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($14,121,610). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $26,839,024 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTH GEORGIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,121,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF NORTH GEORGIA FOUNDATION 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.
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 60 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