South Carolina · Nonprofit
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,726 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($41,589). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $916k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $562k
What College of Charleston Alumni Association does
Mission
The association works to build a culture of pride and engagement by ensuring alumni from the college of charleston stay informed, get involved, and give back.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alumni events: alumni events are an integral part of the College of Charleston Alumni Association's mission to engage alumni to give back to the college. Through a variety of events, the association provides the opportunity for fellowship, career networking, lifelong learning, and philanthropy.
$648,401 spent$561,055 earned by the program100% of program spendingAlumni clubs and affinity groups:currently the College of Charleston Alumni Association has more than 30 regional clubs throughout the united states. These clubs provide a tangible connection between the alumni in different geographical areas with the college of charleston. Alumni affinity groups based on cultural and professional backgrounds provide opportunities for alumni to enjoy fellowship, to network with each other, to learn how to effectively mentor students, and to volunteer to be student mentors. The alumni clubs and affinity groups provide leadership opportunities and training for alumni involved in the management of the clubs.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $648,401.
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 $552k to $696k (+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.
33% of COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $827.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest College of Charleston Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 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
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 51% · 2022 62% · 2023 60% — 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
25% of COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
85% of COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- College of Charleston · exempt
- College of Charleston Foundation · exempt
- Cougar Club · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (South Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,726 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($41,589). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $57,726 in grants to COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $41,589 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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