Michigan · Nonprofit
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,942,075 to it, the largest being WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($873,438,940). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarshipportfolio match
- Jp Crain Family Scholarship Pfdnportfolio match
- County North Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 funders by total. Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
57% of WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
79% of WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Richard Baidas Memorial Scholarshipportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jp Crain Family Scholarship Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- County North Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernard-Wentz Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eberly Da & Tb Scholarship Taportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oscar & Hildegard Thiele Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John Q Shunk Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Councils for Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parkinson Voice Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clapper Scholarship Fundportfolio 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.
Government funding WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2B on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$856.8M
- Department of Education$144.1M
- National Science Foundation$79.4M
- Department of Defense$51.5M
- Department of Energy$23.5M
- Department of the Interior$4.0M
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 WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
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 Michigan
Nationally
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: 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 WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY?
- WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY (Michigan) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,942,075 to it, the largest being WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ($873,438,940). 90 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $153,942,075 in grants to WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 90 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY?
- WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $873,438,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 152funders 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