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Connecticut · Nonprofit
Alumni Fund Association of Yale University (Connecticut) is funded by 40 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $4,634,463 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,611,120). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$26k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $145k and 6 in 2017.
20 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Alumni Fund Association of Yale University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. Association, not causation.
Alumni Fund Association of Yale University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 33% · 2019 43% · 2020 39% · 2021 32% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% · 2024 33% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
35% of Alumni Fund Association of Yale University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
Alumni Fund Association of Yale University draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 40funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing