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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $934,000 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($825,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $737k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $934k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the foundation is to oversee the acquisition of gifts, contributions and grants for sponsored research for individuals, industries, private organizations and government agencies and to assist with transferring technology developed through the foundation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To operate for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, and/or to carry out the purposes of the university of southern mississippi, a public instituition of the state of mississippi.
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$669,936 spent$190,993 earned by the program80% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $833,613.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $1.6M (−27%).
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.
14% of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Dr Kelly Lucas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100k → $275k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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 SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Mississippi, across 3 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 SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI 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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University of Southern Mississippi · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Mississippi) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $934,000 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($825,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $934,000 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- Builders Vision Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $825,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 4 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