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Penn State Alumni Association

Penn State Alumni Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,229 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($68,919). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$96k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$136k
Net assets
$26k
3/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Penn State Alumni Association does

Mission

The Dance Marathon Alumni Interest Group DMAIG leads a passionate community of alumni who create and promote opportunities to raise awareness volunteer time and provide philanthropic support to champion the efforts of Penn State Dance Marathon in the pursuit of a cure for childhood cancer.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Donation to Penn State Dance Marathon to provide funding for children impacted by childhood cancer. Over 4,800 families have been helped and have not seen a medical bill.

    $67,400 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $67,400.

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 ($61k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($56k)2018 Revenue 53 ($32k) Expenses 42 ($20k) Net assets 123 ($69k)2025 Revenue 156 ($96k) Expenses 221 ($103k) Net assets 47 ($26k)
201720182025
Revenue (156)Expenses (221)Net assets (47)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 2017 to 2018, from $56k to $69k (+23%).

$56k
$69k
$26k
201720182025
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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Penn State Alumni Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$13k
’18
−$7k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $28k → $8k.

3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 Penn State 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

Penn State Alumni Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Penn State Alumni Association.

51%
largest funder
95%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 59% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2023 99% — 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.

Where its funders are

67% of Penn State 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 $45k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.

PA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’20
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Penn State Alumni Association has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Penn State 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Penn State 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 Penn State Alumni Association?
Penn State Alumni Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,229 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($68,919). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Penn State Alumni Association have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $136,229 in grants to Penn State Alumni Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Penn State Alumni Association?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $68,919 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Penn State Alumni Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 5 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