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CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION

EIN 57-0750000 CLEMSON, SC

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).

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.

  • DENNIS KEKAS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TANJU 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

  • LESLIE 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

  • ANJALI 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

  • JEFF BROOMFIELD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TOM GREER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CLIFF HOLEKAMP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANGIE 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

  • ERIC WEISSMANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JEREMY MERCURI

    DIRECTOR/FACULTY REP TO 10/24

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 36.5 related

  • AUGUST 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

  • TRACY 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

  • CHASE 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

  • ANDREW 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
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,005,641
    Expenses
    $2,308,972
    Contributions
    $374,456
    Grants paid
    $398,474
  • 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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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

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 10 September 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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.