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WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION

EIN 23-7378001 ROCK HILL, SC

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Revenue 2025
$10,245,717
Expenses 2025
$6,689,635

Program services were 81.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B43I
Classification
2800
Street
302 TILLMAN HALL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

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.

  • 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.

    Expenses $5,405,918 · Grants $4,552,674

  • GRANT 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.

    Expenses $29,000 · Grants $29,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Dr Edward Serna

    University Pres.

    Total calculated
    $575,274
    From this org
    $180,000
    From related orgs
    $290,636
    Other
    $104,638
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000 + $290,636 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported + $104,638 related
    Filer's total
    $180,000 + $395,274 related

  • Mrs Courtney Jurado

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $97,104
    From this org
    $81,231
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,873
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mrs Robin Embry

    Frmr. Ex. Dir.

    Total calculated
    $86,020
    From this org
    $69,614
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,406
    Hours/week
    40

  • Mr Robert Tidwell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Claude Close

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Bob Breakfield

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Chelsea Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mrs Linda Warner

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Pat Boutwell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Andy Popenfoose

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Matt Dosch

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mrs Terry Grayson-Caprio

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mrs Alice Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Chris Tidwell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mrs Suzanne Harnois

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Sylvester Owens

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Sue Rex

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Andy Wilson

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Harry Emerson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mrs Casey Ferri

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Mike Smiley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $10,245,717
    Expenses
    $6,689,635
    Contributions
    $7,422,743
    Grants paid
    $4,581,674
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,744,181
    Expenses
    $6,386,723
    Contributions
    $5,189,722
    Grants paid
    $5,037,327
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,235,855
    Expenses
    $5,212,301
    Contributions
    $3,300,314
    Grants paid
    $4,034,366
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $6,254,328
    Expenses
    $4,646,438
    Contributions
    $2,678,612
    Grants paid
    $3,502,253

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,336,925
    Expenses
    $3,700,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $89,194,270

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,052,572
    Expenses
    $2,986,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $79,370,276

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,237,307
    Expenses
    $3,902,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $68,775,010

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,597,667
    Expenses
    $3,378,853
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,063,439

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,667,272
    Expenses
    $3,602,706
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,721,451

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,121,843
    Expenses
    $3,942,650
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,013,627

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,765,183
    Expenses
    $4,565,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,244,720

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,165,275
    Expenses
    $4,490,759
    Assets (EOY)
    $48,971,654

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,719,528
    Expenses
    $3,902,213
    Assets (EOY)
    $46,801,745

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $4,192,957
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,307,304

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

  • Winthrop University Fdn Land & Real Est

    Hold real estate · SC

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.