Alabama · Nonprofit
AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,467 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($174,996). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $15M
What Auburn Alumni Association does
Mission
The Auburn Alumni Association is dedicated to enhancing the engagement and connnection of all auburn university alumni and friends.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alumni engagement, engagement programming, and athletic events are designed to strengthen the connection and foster meaningful engagement with auburn university alumni and friends.
$879,298 spent$344,830 earned by the program60% of program spendingAuburn magazine provides a vehicle to enhance the relationship between the university and its alumni and friends. Approximately 50,000 issues are mailed two times a year to contributing association life members, and a mixed group of donors, and once a year the magazine is mailed to all alumni on record, approximately 230,000.
$439,658 spent$40,800 earned by the program30% of program spendingThe Auburn Alumni Association's awards and scholarship programs provides initiatives to foster giving from auburn alumni and friends to auburn university and the auburn university foundation (the foundation).
$152,406 spentof which $152,406 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,471,362.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $18M (+13%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
38% of AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rob Wellbaum
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $51k → $2k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $322k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Auburn University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2019 61% · 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.
“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 AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
86% of AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'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 $29k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $176k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
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.
In Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Alabama) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,467 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($174,996). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $205,467 in grants to AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $174,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUBURN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing