Florida · Nonprofit
USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,478,036 to it, the largest being THE LEO & ANNE ALBERT CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,260,784). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio match
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared funders
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.
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 USF 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $273k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 28% · 2019 49% · 2020 60% · 2021 37% · 2022 58% · 2023 73% — 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
41% of USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $356k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
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. Your 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 96 organizations that share your funders
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Multiple Sclerosis Societyshared fundersNY · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Hacking for Defense Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Food and Agriculture Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Communication Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horticultural Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ieee Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Center for Women and Information Technologyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Oelman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 12 related entities
- Causf Research LLC · disregarded
- The University of South Florida Board of Trustees · exempt
- University of South Florida Alumni Association Inc · exempt
- University of South Florida Foundation · exempt
- Usf Health Professions Conferencing Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for USF 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC?
- USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC (Florida) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,478,036 to it, the largest being THE LEO & ANNE ALBERT CHARITABLE TRUST ($2,260,784). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $7,478,036 in grants to USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USF RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC?
- THE LEO & ANNE ALBERT CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,260,784 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USF 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 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing