Iowa · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $-164372
What University of Northern Iowa Research Foundation does
Mission
The University of Northern Iowa Research Foundation's mission is to advance, develop, increase & extend the progress of science & useful arts through encouraging & assisting investigation, research & education at the university of northern iowa by furnishing the means, methods and agencies by which ideas, creations, discoveries, inventions and processes may be protected and the uses thereof determined and safeguarded for the public, and to manage, license and dispose of proprietary rights in ideas, creations, discoveries, inventions and processes of any nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
As part of the University of Northern Iowa Research Foundation's efforts to furnish the means, methods and agencies by which ideas, creations, discoveries, inventions and processes may be protected and the uses thereof determined and safeguarded for the public, the organization recieved a share of the royalties to 4 individuals for 4 inventions or intellectual properties and their respective sponsoring units at the university of northern iowa.
$12,121 spent$33,201 earned by the program100% of program spendingResearch, legal fees, license/patent renewal for the protection of proprietary rights to intellectual property.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,121.
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 2022 to 2023, from $70k to $44k (−37%).
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 NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $8k.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state 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 NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
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 Iowa
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- University of Northern Iowa Foundation · exempt
- Univ of Northern Iowa Properties Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 1 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