Nova Southeastern University Inc
Fort Lauderdale, FL · EIN 59-1083502. Reported 135 grants totalling $19.7M to 56 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Nova Southeastern University Inc, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 25% 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. 72% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $45,047. Half of what it reported fell between $20,652 and $118,137; the smallest was $6,748 and the largest $1,621,816. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Florida Area Health Education Center Inc | Apopka, FL | $4,940,787 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Everglades Ahec | West Palm Beach, FL | $4,681,918 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Durham, NC | $1,817,452 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Coastal Eco-Group Inc | Deerfield Beach, FL | $1,028,778 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Healthy Aquatics Marine Institute of Florida Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $592,258 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Florida International University | Miami, FL | $498,983 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Symbioseas | Carolina Bch, NC | $442,209 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $406,892 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| South Florida Veterans Affairs Foundation for Research & Educaton | Miami, FL | $400,004 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $379,404 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Care Resource Community Health Centers Inc | Miami, FL | $370,932 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Caridad Center Inc | Boynton Beach, FL | $346,581 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Miami Dade College | Miami, FL | $331,127 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Junior Achievement of South Florida | Coconut Creek, FL | $270,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Ocean Data Technologies Inc | Hyannis, MA | $218,833 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Meta Media Training Intl Inc | Frederick, MD | $214,590 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $214,530 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | $196,157 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $186,836 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of North Carolina at Wilmington | Wilmington, NC | $124,627 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Florida Atlantic University | Boca Raton, FL | $121,664 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m Univ at Galveston | College Station, TX | $113,770 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Connecticut Health Ce | Farington, CT | $109,852 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $107,978 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mote Marine Laboratory | Sarasota, FL | $107,221 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way of Broward County | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Broward Community and Family Health Centers Inc | Hollywood, FL | $98,914 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $94,279 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Veterans Bio-Medical Research Institute Inc | East Orange, NJ | $94,078 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $82,300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| South Florida Autism Charter School | Hialeah, FL | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Smithsonian Institute | Washington, DC | $78,308 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College | Baton Rouge, LA | $74,023 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research | Palo Alto, CA | $65,341 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $62,998 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Florida Gulf Coast University | Fort Myers, FL | $61,206 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $60,201 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $56,921 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $49,379 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Florida Aquarium Inc | Tampa, FL | $45,047 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | $32,571 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $29,139 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $28,985 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Perry Institute for Marine Science Inc | Waitsfield, VT | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Adler Aphasia Center | Maywood, NJ | $26,565 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Central Michigan University | Mt Pleasant, MI | $25,485 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc | Coral Gables, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tri-State Maritime Safety Assn | Camden, NJ | $24,919 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Cosmosid Inc | Germantown, MA | $23,819 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rochester General Hospital | Rochester, NY | $18,666 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $17,197 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Broward Public Library Foundation | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Dream Dive Charters-Addc | Davie, FL | $11,850 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Winterfest Inc | Ft Lauderdale, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
37 of 56 (66%) 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 Atlantic University
Research,Teaching/Training - University of Pittsburgh
Teaching/Training,Research
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $4,227,996 | $59,206 |
| 2021 | 40 | $4,789,377 | $27,794 |
| 2022 | 32 | $5,534,902 | $49,698 |
| 2023 | 31 | $5,182,799 | $47,362 |
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
75% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. 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.
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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 $45,047 -- 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 Florida.
- 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 Nova Southeastern University Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 30 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 3300 S University Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 33328.
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