Foundation History
Founded in 1934 by the General Motors leader who helped make the company a household name, this foundation supports research and education in STEM and economics.
What is the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation?
This global aerospace company develops commercial airplanes, defense products and space systems—and made a $1.5 million USC gift supporting the Clyburn Endowed Chair.
What is Boeing?
USC has held the No. 1 public-institution ranking in this undergraduate business field for decades.
What is international business?
A donor wants to establish a permanently endowed undergraduate scholarship with no deliverables beyond stewardship. This is the best initial recipient.
What is the USC Educational Foundation?
A pharmaceutical company pays USC to conduct an organized study testing the safety and efficacy of a drug. CASE treats this revenue as nonphilanthropic.
What is an industry-sponsored clinical trial?
Founded in the United States in 1955, this fund traces its roots to two American pharmacists who created a pharmaceutical company in 19th-century England.
What is the Burroughs Wellcome Fund?
This South Carolina–headquartered materials science manufacturer works across textiles, chemicals, flooring and health care—and committed $1 million to USC’s Wardlaw College renovation.
What is Milliken & Company?
This college combines the resources of a major research university with a small-college experience and is described by USC as the nation’s top.
What is the South Carolina Honors College?
A private foundation will fund faculty research under a detailed scope, line-item budget, institutional approvals and technical reporting requirements. This is the best initial route.
What is USC?
A funder requires USC to provide its employees with discounted courses or training as a condition of financial support. CASE gives this type of funding this treatment.
What is excluded from philanthropic funding because of an exchange of benefits.
This foundation was created in 1924 when an industrialist signed an Indenture of Trust and contributed an initial $40 million to benefit the Carolinas.
What is The Duke Endowment?
USC’s gift data record more than $700,000 in recent in-kind support from this West Columbia pharmaceutical manufacturer for Arts and Sciences programs and research equipment.
What is Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation?
For the seventh consecutive year, USC ranked No. 1 among public institutions for this signature student experience in the 2025 U.S. News rankings.
What is the first-year student experience?
A corporation makes an unrestricted charitable contribution to support a college priority and asks only for recognition and an impact update. This is the best initial recipient.
What is the USC Educational Foundation?
A company pays USC under a binding agreement to receive a defined economic benefit. CASE excludes the payment because it is this type of transaction.
What is a contact?
Established in 1907 with $10 million from the widow of a railroad magnate, this was the nation’s first general-purpose foundation and now focuses on social science research.
What is the Russell Sage Foundation?
This insurer’s South Carolina foundation appears in USC data with major support for medicine, nursing and public health, including awards of $2.325 million and $2 million.
What is the BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation?
This statewide USC initiative combines rural clinics, a new center with advanced brain imaging, and plans for South Carolina’s first stand-alone neurological and rehabilitation hospital.
What is USC’s Brain Health initiative (or Brain Health Network)?
A company will pay for testing and requires exclusive access to results plus a royalty-free IP license. Route it here—but do not count it as philanthropy.
What is USC?
A donor creates a scholarship but retains the right to select or veto the recipient. This CASE principle prevents the contribution from being counted.
What is prohibited donor control?
This philanthropist became one of Coca-Cola’s first female directors and left a legacy that provides need-based scholarships to women in nine Southeastern states. Name her foundation.
What is the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation?
This financial institution made a $500,000 USC gift in FY2023 to the Center for Civil Rights unendowed new-construction fund.
What is Bank of America?
In the 2026 U.S. News online rankings, four programs in this USC college ranked in the national Top 10, including the No. 2 online master’s program.
What is the College of Nursing?
A foundation proposal is institutionally limited, includes a research budget and must be routed for approvals before submission. Name both the route and the internal system.
USCERA and USC
A research funder receives a royalty-free license to intellectual property that may result from the project. Under CASE, the funding receives this treatment.
What is excluded from philanthropic counting?