BINGHAM FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AT TRANSYLVANIA UNIV
EIN 61-1129707 LEXINGTON, KY
- Revenue 2023
- $2,201,322
- Expenses 2023
- $2,850,040
Program services were 93.9% 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
- 300 NORTH BROADWAY
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 · 2023
Mission
The Trust was established in 1987 in celebration of the continual quest of the human race for knowledge and the service of teachers as the guides along the complex paths of education. The Settlors who established the Trust did so with the fervent hope and desire that it will serve as a source of innovation and motivation in the furtherance of educational excellence through teaching at Transylvania University. The fund was designed to promote teaching excellence and dedication among the faculty of Transylvania through the granting of Bingham Awards to individual teachers of exceptional ability who demonstrate excellent teaching qualities.
Activities or mission (Part I)
Promotes teaching quality and development of the faculty of Transylvania University
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Faculty salary supplements and related fringe benefits
Expenses $1,891,694
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Faculty development grants, technology initiative expenditures and various selection committee expenses
Expenses $785,072 · Grants $270,937
As filed on the 2023 return.
Officers and directors · 2023
As listed in Part VII of the 2023 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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Mr Brien Lewis
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $484,850
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $437,461
- Other
- $47,389
- Hours/week
- 1 + 40 related
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $0 + $407,461 related
- Bonus
- $0 + $30,000 related
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $0 + $22,500 related
- Nontaxable benefits
- $0 + $24,889 related
- Filer's total
- $0 + $484,850 related
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Dr John Williams
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $36,000
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $36,000
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 10
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Dr Sarah Stanbury
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $20,000
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $20,000
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dr Jonathan Berkey
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $20,000
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $20,000
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mr George Branch
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mr Norwood Cowgill
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ms Carol L Jones
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Dr Dan Jones
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Dr John K Roth
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mr William T Young Jr
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Mr Christopher H Young
Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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
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2023
- Revenue
- $2,201,322
- Expenses
- $2,850,040
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $2,911,539
- Expenses
- $2,307,805
- Contributions
- $0
- Grants paid
- $0
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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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,048,906
- Expenses
- $2,227,205
- Assets (EOY)
- $103,294,349
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2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,944,699
- Expenses
- $1,990,851
- Assets (EOY)
- $111,075,860
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2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,927,476
- Expenses
- $1,325,166
- Assets (EOY)
- $88,470,681
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,090,369
- Expenses
- $1,656,009
- Assets (EOY)
- $86,130,394
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,263,986
- Expenses
- $1,594,656
- Assets (EOY)
- $75,063,907
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
No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
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 2023 return
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501(c)(3) · 4 year college · KY
Declared as related by
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On its 2023 return
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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.