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Alumni Fund Association of Yale University
Alumni Fund Association of Yale University (Connecticut) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,360,649 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,451,093). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $0
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $0
What Alumni Fund Association of Yale University does
Mission
The Alumni Fund Association of Yale University ("The Association") is an organization which has been ruled to be exempt from income tax under Section 501(C)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is operated solely for the benefit of and is controlled by Yale University, A Connecticut Corporation, which has also been ruled to be exempt under Section 501(C)(3). Yale University is an educational organization described in Section 170(B)(1)(A)(II) of the internal revenue code, which normally maintains a regular faculty and curriculum and normally has a regularly enrolled body of students in attendance at the place where its educational activities are regularly carried on. The Association's purpose and activities consist solely of encouraging and soliciting contributions to or for the University from persons who have attended or attend or who otherwise have an affiliation with or affinity to the University (Collectively, "Alumni") for the general use of Yale University, subject to such restrictions on use as may from time to time be imposed by the donors and accepted by the University.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
None
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $637k → $688k.
20 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 63 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Alumni Fund Association of Yale University leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Alumni Fund Association of Yale University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 31% · 2019 40% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of Alumni Fund Association of Yale University's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of Alumni Fund Association of Yale University's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Alumni Fund Association of Yale University
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alumni Fund Association of Yale University: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Alumni Fund Association of Yale University?
- Alumni Fund Association of Yale University (Connecticut) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,360,649 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,451,093). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Alumni Fund Association of Yale University have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $6,360,649 in grants to Alumni Fund Association of Yale University, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alumni Fund Association of Yale University?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,451,093 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alumni Fund Association of Yale University find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 63 funders 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. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing