South Carolina · Nonprofit
Winthrop University Foundation
Winthrop University Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,242,101 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,158,187). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $106M
What Winthrop University Foundation does
Mission
To support and enhance winthrop university by encouraging alumni and friends to provide private funds and other resources for the university's benefit, to manage those assets, and to provide volunteer leadership in support of the university's objectives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support for winthrop university, a south carolina public higher education institution located in rock hill, sc, whose legislative charter includes a mandate to be a "first-class institution of higher education" offering an educational experience "as the progress of the times may require". Support is made through scholarships, grants, salary supplements, and other discretionary support that promotes the growth, development and advancement of its educational goals.
$5,405,918 spentof which $4,552,674 as grants99% of program spendingGrant to winthrop university alumni association, another 501(c)3 organization, for operational support to build engagement, loyalty, connections, resources and goodwill among university students, graduates and non-graduate alumni and friends.
$29,000 spentof which $29,000 as grants1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,434,918.
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 2024 to 2025, from $93M to $109M (+17%).
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.
72% of Winthrop University Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $259k → $445k.
15 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 Winthrop University Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
Winthrop University Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 Winthrop University Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 28% · 2019 55% · 2020 35% · 2021 41% · 2022 38% · 2023 47% — 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
48% of Winthrop University Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
74% of Winthrop University Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is 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.
Against its field
Winthrop University Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Winthrop University 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Winthrop University Fdn Land & Real Est · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Winthrop University Foundation: 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 Winthrop University Foundation?
- Winthrop University Foundation (South Carolina) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,242,101 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,158,187). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Winthrop University Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $4,242,101 in grants to Winthrop University Foundation, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Winthrop University Foundation?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,158,187 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winthrop University Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 43 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing