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GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,793 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $221k
- Net assets
- $137M
What General Alumni Association Dba Unc General Alumni Association does
Mission
Carolina alumni initiatives support over 30,000 active students and over 370,000 alumni and friends of the university of north carolina at chapel hill. Carolina alumni creates a dynamic alumni community that reflects the values and traditions of carolina. We do this through a variety of programs, networking and social events, alumni career services, and more ensuring the carolina connection remains strong and vibrant.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs and events/alumni tours: carolina alumni is one of the leading alumni associations in the country, and provides a comprehensive menu of award-winning program opportunities to its alumni, members and students, to include the following: over 90 carolina clubs across the us and the world, allowing alumni to connect with other tar heels in the area they live; young alumni events geared to those who graduated within the previous 10 years; affinity and class-based reunions held in chapel hill, providing alumni the opportunity to renew acquaintances with classmates, have fun, strengthen ties with carolina and perhaps leave with ideas for making those ties with their alma mater and friends more meaningful; an international travel program, providing a selection of over 60 trips, serving over 900 travelers; support for a number of student groups, including the senior class, two acapella groups, the homecoming committee and the order of the bell tower, which serves and the official student ambassadors and tradition keepers to the university.
$2,117,026 spent$563,631 earned by the program35% of program spendingAlumni publications/communications: production and distribution of the bi-monthly carolina alumni magazine to members, students and faculty which includes news about the university, alumni association, individual alumni, as well as information about alumni programs and activities. Production and maintenance of carolina alumni's website.
$2,114,275 spent35% of program spendingAlumni records and network administration: this includes the cost of access to the university's alumni database, which is used for membership and programmatic purposes.
$893,052 spent$117,216 earned by the program15% of program spendingMembership: membership benefits and services to promote alumni programs, activities, and publications for 19,308 annual members and 43,223 life members.
$889,361 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,013,714.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $118M to $129M (+9%).
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.
17% of GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL 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. 0 of the last 5 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
Martha Gabriel Peck
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $350 → $240.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL 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
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 10% 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
53% of GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL 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 $104k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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
GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,793 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $220,793 in grants to GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION DBA UNC GENERAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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