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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,449,049 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ($483,416,048). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
68
Funders on record
$94M
Grants received
Net assets
37/68 repeat funders

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

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02Who funds it

How concentrated its funding is

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
82%
top three
~2
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

How long its funders stay

67% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $452.4M on record — $452.2M federal, $127k state.

Federal$452.2M
grants $438.3Mcontracts $14.0M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$200.1M
  • Department of Commerce$73.9M
  • Department of Education$73.6M
  • National Science Foundation$56.2M
  • Department of Defense$23.2M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$7.9M
State$127k
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By state
  • MA$78k
  • OK$49k
  • FL$135

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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alabama

Nationally

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: 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 SOUTH ALABAMA?
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA (Alabama) receives grants from 68 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,449,049 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION ($483,416,048). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA have?
IRS filings report 68 organizations giving $94,449,049 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA?
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $483,416,048 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024, and the filings of 68funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing