Indiana · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME
FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,209,405 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,923,833). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Friends of Univ of Notre Dame does
Mission
Friends of the university of notre dame, inc (fund) is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes that promotes charitable organizations and their missions by using the name, image, and likeness of universtiy of notre dame student-athletes.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Friends of the university of notre dame inc ("fund") provided charitable organizations with in-kind support services to help supported charities fulfill their charitable missions and program services with the services of student athletes who make appearances, create content on social media platforms in support of the charitable organizations programs and events, and otherwise raise the profile of the charitable organizations in the communities where the organizations are located. The program leverages the student athletes name, image, and likeness to make a difference for the supported charities and their exempt purposes. Supported charitable organizations request funds support or are identified by student athletes who are aligned with a charitable organizations mission and work.
$11,268,690 spentof which $120,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,268,690.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $6.5M to $21M (+225%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Board chair
Greg Dugard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.8M.
9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME’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
FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% 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 FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 73% · 2023 42% — 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.
Where its funders are
69% of FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME'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 $3.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Indiana, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME: 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 FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME?
- FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,209,405 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($2,923,833). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $11,209,405 in grants to FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $2,923,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF UNIV OF NOTRE DAME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 15 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