Washington · Nonprofit
CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,700 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($5,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $259k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Central Washington University Alumni Association does
Mission
The mission of the association is to support the cwu community through cultivation, engagement and development of its alumni and friends.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Vision statement: to build a passionate wildcat nation.statement of philosophy: we believe that cwu should be a cooperative enterprise, a community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni, whom collectively and individually, all are responsible for developing, supporting, and sustaining the objectives of cwu. We believe that our alumni comprise an integral and inseparable part of cwu and that all alumni have a continuing obligation to serve and support their almamater.we believe that our alumni can serve cwu by joining together in an organized association which can promote and focus support and service and that the concepts for developing the association's organizational policies should be determined by the alumni themselves.we believe that it should be the function of association to work with cwu to develop ways and means of alumni engagement, involvement and communication with their alma mater and to see that alumni are recognized as a respected and integral part of cwu.the work we do is guided by three strategic principles:connect = outreachengage = build participationlead = develop leaders and philanthropic partnerthe alumni association has made tremendous progress as we have…
$38,917 spentof which $5,981 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,917.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.2M to $898k (−26%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 19% · 2023 14% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Emily Adams
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $12M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Central Washington University Foundation); $348k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Central Washington University Alumni Association). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Central Washington University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: 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 CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,700 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($5,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,700 in grants to CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 1 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