Ohio · Nonprofit
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,638,769 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,923,722). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $379M
What Youngstown State University Foundation does
Mission
The Youngstown State University Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that supports student scholarships, student development, and career opportunities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Youngstown State University Foundation (ysu foundation) is an independent, non-profit organization focused on supporting student scholarships, student development, and career opportunities. The ysu foundation is a catalytic force for the advancement of ysu, the youngstown community, and northeast ohio. Ysuf is a critical source of support, opportunity, and excellence for ysu students and university programs. The competition for students in higher education has never been greater. The ysu foundation, providing over $22.8 million in annual scholarship aid, has historically designed scholarship awards to provide access to attend ysu. One of the ysu foundation's important initiatives is the student investment fund. The foundation also provides grants to youngstown state university for the purpose of lectures and symposiums and for the operations of various departments and centers.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $267M to $337M (+26%).
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.
55% of YOUNGSTOWN STATE 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. 1 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 33 funders, grant income rose $901k → $2.1M.
19 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Akron Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
62% 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 YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 25% · 2019 24% · 2020 22% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.
“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
45% of YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
61% of YOUNGSTOWN STATE 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 $5.7M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUNGSTOWN STATE 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,638,769 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,923,722). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $14,638,769 in grants to YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,923,722 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 74 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