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KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($35). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$35
Net assets
$15M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Kent State University Alumni Association does

Mission

To foster strong emotional bonds and meaningful engagement with kent state university through programs and services foralumni and students.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Awards and recognition - expenses are costs for events to promote the bond between alumni and university and recognition of alumni and faculty accomplishments. Other costs incurred via contracted services to run chapters, homecoming and volunteer services.

    $399,047 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $399,047.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($710k) Net assets 100 ($9.9M)2018 Revenue 82 ($1.0M) Expenses 82 ($585k) Net assets 108 ($11M)2019 Revenue 78 ($990k) Expenses 105 ($745k) Net assets 108 ($11M)2020 Revenue 96 ($1.2M) Expenses 101 ($713k) Net assets 107 ($11M)2021 Revenue 14 ($180k) Expenses 43 ($306k) Net assets 144 ($14M)2022 Revenue 20 ($260k) Expenses 71 ($500k) Net assets 123 ($12M)2023 Revenue 14 ($179k) Expenses 96 ($679k) Net assets 131 ($13M)2024 Revenue 7 ($83k) Expenses 91 ($648k) Net assets 141 ($14M)2025 Revenue 9 ($116k) Expenses 101 ($718k) Net assets 152 ($15M)
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Revenue (9)Expenses (101)Net assets (152)Peer revenue range

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 $11M to $14M (+32%).

$10.0M
$11M
$11M
$11M
$14M
$12M
$13M
$14M
$15M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$563k
’17
$463k
’18
$244k
’19
$504k
’20
−$126k
’21
−$240k
’22
−$500k
’23
−$564k
’24
−$602k
’25
1.8
months of
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

Scott Mckinney

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201918212522232424
Joined·+6+4+6+8+4+4+3+4
No longer listed·75347324
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'17
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of KENT STATE 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

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's revenue fell 91% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−519% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−26% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

56% of spending goes to programs.

Program 56%Management 44%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($35). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35 in grants to KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Who is the largest funder of KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KENT STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 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