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Thurgood Marshall College Fund
Washington, DC · EIN 41-1750692. Reported 155 grants totalling $62.1M to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Thurgood Marshall College Fund, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B82Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 35% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 64% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $8,050 and the largest $10.4M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partnership for Ed Advancement Inc | New York, NY | $21.6M | 5 | 2 | 2023 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | $6,319,861 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Prairie View A&m University | Prairie View, TX | $6,299,845 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore, MD | $6,299,600 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina A&t University | Greensboro, NC | $5,100,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Term | Tallahassee, FL | $5,087,500 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tuskegee University | Tuskegee Institute, AL | $5,077,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alabama A&m University | Normal, AL | $1,456,001 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Delaware State University Foundation Inc | Dover, DE | $954,032 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of DC Foundation | Washington, DC | $633,332 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia State University Foundation | Petersburg, VA | $422,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Texas Southern University | Houston, TX | $363,500 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fayetteville State University | Fayetteville, NC | $307,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tennessee State University | Nashville, TN | $235,235 | 8 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southern University and A&m College | Baton Rouge, LA | $192,500 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alabama State University Foundation Inc | Montgomery, AL | $141,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas Southern University Foundation | Houston, TX | $141,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Foundation for Nc A&t State Uni Versi | Greensboro, NC | $122,500 | 6 | 2 | 2024 |
| Elizabeth City State University Foundation | Elizabeth Cty, NC | $93,050 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hampton University | Hampton, VA | $87,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jackson State University | Jackson, MS | $85,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lawson State Community College | Birmingham, AL | $70,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spelman College | Atlanta, GA | $62,500 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Langston University Foundation | Langston, OK | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alabama a & M University Foundation | Normal, AL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Morgan State University Foundation Incorporated | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southern University in New Orleans Foundation Inc | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Allen University | Columbia, SC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Alcorn State University | Lorman, MS | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Bethune-Cookman University | Daytona Beach, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cheyney University of Pa | Cheney, PA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Florida Memorial University Inc | Miami Gardens, FL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Huston-Tillotson University | Austin, TX | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Central University | Durham, NC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| South Carolina State University Foundation Inc | Orangeburg, SC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Stillman College | Tuscaloosa, AL | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Savannah State University | Savannah, GA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tougaloo College | Tougaloo, MS | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Winston Salem State University | Winstonsalem, NC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central State University | Wilberforce, OH | $32,610 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Morehouse College | Atlanta, GA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Claflin University | Orangeburg, SC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lincoln University | Jefferson Cty, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Livingstone College | Salisbury, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norfolk State University | Norfolk, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Saint Augustine's University | Raleigh, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| West Virginia State University Foundation Inc | Institute, WV | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern University System Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff | Pine Bluff, AR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Meharry Medical College | Nashville, TN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Elizabeth City State University | Elizabeth City, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kentucky State University | Frankfort, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
36 of 53 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Florida A&m University
Google Capacity Building Grant - Morgan State University
2021-2022 Apple New Silicon Initiative (NSI) Grant - Howard University
2022-2023 Apple New Silicon Initiative (NSI) Grant - Virginia State University
TMCF Fleischer Scholars Program - Alabama A&m University
TMCF SOAR (Seeking, Observing and Achieving Results) Scholar Program - Delaware State University Foundation Inc
DSU Near Completers Pilot
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $32.6M | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 48 | $10.7M | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 38 | $16.2M | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $2,659,072 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
35% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Thurgood Marshall College Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 25 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 901 F St Nw Ste 700, Washington, DC, 20004.
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