Public Charity

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC is a Public Charity headquartered in ATLANTA, GA. Financial data from the 2025 filing: $154.1M revenue, $151.3M expenses, $124.2M total assets. 336 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $58.0M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 581845423 ATLANTA, GA Research Institutes & Public Policy Analysis NTEE: B05 Latest filing: 2025
Total Revenue$154.1M
Total Expenses$151.3M
Total Assets$124.2M
Grant Records336
Funding Total$58.0M
Filing Years2021–2025

Mission

THE CORPORATION HAS BEEN ORGANIZED TO ENGAGE IN ACTIVITIES AND PURSUITS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE EDUCATIONAL, RESEARCH, AND SERVICE FUNCTIONS OF GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY. THUS, THE CORPORATION WILL ATTEMPT TO SECURE GIFTS, CONTRIBUTIONS, AND GRANTS FROM INDIVIDUALS, INDUSTRIAL OR OTHER PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES OR OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES AND OBTAIN AND/OR ENTER INTO CONTRACTS WITH SUCH INDIVIDUALS OR ENTITIES FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF SPONSORED RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, OR OTHER PROGRAMS TO BE PERFORMED UNDER SUBCONTRACT BY GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY.

Where $100 goes at Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc

How Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 9 years.

$97 Programs the work itself
$3 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $97 for programs

$94
Research grants are awarded to georgia state university
97% of program spending
$3
The foundation supported the learning engineering tools competition in 2024, a multi-million dollar prize challenge to leverage technology, data, and learning science to meet the urgent needs of…
3% of program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2025. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Candace Kemp
CHAIRPERSON Donald Hamelberg
DIRECTOR Jack Williams
VICE CHAIR Jared Abramson
SECRETARY Kerry Heyward
DIRECTOR Margo Brinton

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Research & Policy
$26,372,256 111 grants
Education
$15,066,883 42 grants
General Support
$10,556,613 125 grants
Health & Medicine
$727,801 10 grants
Human & Social Services
$457,525 3 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2025 $154.1M $151.3M $124.2M
2024 $152.1M $150.3M $110.7M
2023 $136.5M $132.3M $109.6M
2022 $122.5M $115.8M $92.5M
2021 $103.3M $100.6M $169.7M

Between 2021 and 2025, reported annual revenue grew from $103.3M to $154.1M (+49%), with total assets most recently reported at $124.2M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

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