About Lsu Foundation
The LSU Foundation's sole purpose is to provide philanthropic support to LSU, managing gifts, endowments, investments and serving as trustee for private assets contributed for the benefit of LSU.
Focus Areas
Higher educationScholarshipsResearchSTEMHealthcare
Who They Fund
undergraduate studentsgraduate studentsuniversity faculty (chairs/professorships)academic researchershigher education institutions
Funding Style
scholarship/fellowship fundingendowed faculty support (chairs/professorships)
About Lsu Foundation
The LSU Foundation’s recent grant history centers on a single institution: Louisiana State University. In 2025, it granted $71,811,933 to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge for university academic and research support, including scholarships, graduate fellowships, and faculty chairs and professorships. The two prior top grants followed the same pattern, at $30,613,221 in 2024 and $27,872,280 in 2023, all directed to LSU in Baton Rouge for the same broad university support. That run of grants shows a funder built around sustained institutional support rather than a dispersed portfolio of unrelated awards. Its active programs reinforce that profile. The foundation manages endowment-based support, a general LSU Fund, an emergency student support fund, a scholarship fund, and research initiatives such as Collaboration in Action. It also operates Launch LSU, a crowdfunding platform for students, faculty, and staff projects, and funds internship support through the Lagniappe Internship Fund. Across these channels, the foundation supports students, faculty, research teams, and academic infrastructure within LSU.
What Lsu Foundation Funds
Higher education support is the foundation’s core pattern. The largest recent grant, $71,811,933 to Louisiana State University, funded academic and research support that included scholarships, graduate fellowships, and faculty chairs and professorships. That same structure appears in earlier years as well, with another LSU grant of $30,613,221 for the same purpose. Student support appears in several forms. The LSU Scholarship Fund supports students through donor-funded scholarships and endowments, while the LSU Student Emergency Support Fund provides immediate relief in emergency situations. The Lagniappe Internship Fund helps students cover expenses so they can accept internships. Research support is also explicit. Collaboration in Action directs funding to collaborative research teams working on cardiovascular disease, cancer care, trauma and neuroscience, and chronic respiratory disease in Louisiana.
How Lsu Foundation Gives
Grant size is highly concentrated at a large scale: p25 is $29,242,750, median is $30,613,221, and p75 is $51,212,577. The recent grant record shows a repeated pattern across 2023, 2024, and 2025, with each listed award going to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. The foundation is an institutional funder tied to LSU’s philanthropic operations, with endowment management, scholarship funding, and project-based support across university priorities. It accepts unsolicited submissions for some programs, including the LSU Foundation Endowment / Endowment Impact program, Launch LSU, and the William A. Brookshire ROTC Scholarship, while other programs are not open to unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$39.5M
Total Assets
$1B
Total Revenue
$121.1M
Total Expenses
$70.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $29.2M and $51.2M, with a median of $30.6M.
25th Percentile
$29.2M
Median
$30.6M
75th Percentile
$51.2M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
ROBERT M STUART JR
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