- Revenue 2024
- $2,467,253
- Expenses 2024
- $2,228,373
Program services were 94.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B110
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 946
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 · 2024
Mission
TO GENERATE RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLEMSON UNIVERSITY TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INITIATIVES THAT ADVANCE UNIVERSITY DISCOVERIES TO CREATE NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR PUBLIC USE AND BENEFIT.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO SUPPORT RESEARCH, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES AT AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF CLEMSON UNIVERSITY. TO GENERATE RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLEMSON UNIVERSITY TO SUPPORT RESEARCH INITIATIVES THAT ADVANCE UNIVERSITY DISCOVERIES TO CREATE NEW PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR PUBLIC USE AND BENEFIT.
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Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.
Expenses $2,103,755 · Grants $519,466 · Revenue $1,613,866
As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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Dennis KekasDENNIS KEKAS
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tanju KaranfilTANJU KARANFIL
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $447,345
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $414,651
- Other
- $32,694
- Hours/week
- 1 + 36.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $412,726 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $1,925 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $14,500 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $18,194 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $447,345 related
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Leslie HossfeldLESLIE HOSSFELD
DIRECTOR/DEAN REP
- Total calculated
- $382,528
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $357,621
- Other
- $24,907
- Hours/week
- 1 + 36.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $335,786 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $21,835 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $14,500 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $10,407 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $382,528 related
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Anjali JosephANJALI JOSEPH
DIRECTOR/FACULTY REP FROM 10/24
- Total calculated
- $274,787
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $237,397
- Other
- $37,390
- Hours/week
- 1 + 36.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $160,726 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $76,671 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $12,317 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $25,073 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $274,787 related
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Jeff BroomfieldJEFF BROOMFIELD
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tom GreerTOM GREER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cliff HolekampCLIFF HOLEKAMP
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Angie LeidingerANGIE LEIDINGER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $534,852
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $424,850
- Other
- $110,002
- Hours/week
- 1 + 36.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $412,461 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $12,389 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $85,940 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $24,062 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $534,852 related
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Eric WeissmannERIC WEISSMANN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Jeremy MercuriJEREMY MERCURI
DIRECTOR/FACULTY REP TO 10/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 36.5 related
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August C Chris GessweinAUGUST C CHRIS GESSWEIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $244,171
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $209,393
- Other
- $34,778
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $208,973 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $420 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $10,871 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $23,907 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $244,171 related
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Tracy WaltersTRACY WALTERS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $232,488
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $179,540
- Other
- $52,948
- Hours/week
- 1 + 36.5 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $179,282 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $258 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $45,130 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $7,818 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $232,488 related
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Chase KasperCHASE KASPER
SENIOR DEPUTY DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $215,765
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $159,413
- Other
- $56,352
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $158,639 related
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0 + $774 related
- Deferred
- $0 + $39,230 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $17,122 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $215,765 related
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Andrew BluvasANDREW BLUVAS
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
- Total calculated
- $136,620
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $102,336
- Other
- $34,284
- Hours/week
- 37.5
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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $2,467,253
- Expenses
- $2,228,373
- Contributions
- $613,899
- Grants paid
- $519,467
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,005,641
- Expenses
- $2,308,972
- Contributions
- $374,456
- Grants paid
- $398,474
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,940,204
- Expenses
- $2,473,262
- Contributions
- $465,250
- Grants paid
- $83,333
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,360,637
- Expenses
- $2,195,767
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,060,542
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,882,601
- Expenses
- $2,068,719
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,369,735
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,554,328
- Expenses
- $1,694,406
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,623,559
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,919,918
- Expenses
- $3,179,362
- Assets (EOY)
- $9,775,410
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,923,604
- Expenses
- $1,833,913
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,273,030
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,923,604
- Expenses
- $1,833,913
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,273,030
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,706,582
- Expenses
- $2,695,377
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,189,307
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $5,827,721
- Expenses
- $5,150,676
- Assets (EOY)
- $11,637,878
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,751,553
- Expenses
- $6,945,259
- Assets (EOY)
- $13,561,987
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $8,900,285
- Expenses
- $8,938,756
- Assets (EOY)
- $15,053,840
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
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
$398,474
2023 SPONSORED AND NON-SPONSORED RESEARCH OPERATIONS
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
$193,338
2024 SPONSORED AND NON-SPONSORED RESEARCH OPERATIONS
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
$83,333
2022 SPONSORED AND NON-SPONSORED RESEARCH OPERATIONS
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2024 CAPITAL ASSET TRANSFER
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2024 CAPITAL ASSET TRANSFER
Grants received
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2022 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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SOUTH CAROLINA RESEARCH AUTHORITY
$110,000
2022 Academic Matching/Strategic Alignment
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$100,000
2022 SUPPORTING A HEALTHIER, MORE SUSTAINABLE, MORE EQUITABLE FOOD SYSTEM
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2024 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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2023 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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 on its 2024 return
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
170(C)(1) · RESEARCH UNIVERSITY · SC
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 2024 return
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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY LIGHT RAIL LLC
LEASING AGENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE PROVIDER · SC · income $732,225 · assets $762,321
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 SOUNK.
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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.