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STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,619,334 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($60,885,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.8M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$62M
Net assets
$3.1M
3/7 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Stanford Business School Alumni Association does

Mission

To engage and serve stanford gsb alumni throughout their lives and to advance stanford gsb in its mission to develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarship program - sbsaa provides need-based scholarships for eligible students.

  2. Alumni relations programs - sbsaa provides support to the school for general budget relief which is being allocated to various programs at the school's discretion.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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 ($354k) Expenses 100 ($341k) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 133 ($472k) Expenses 74 ($250k) Net assets 104 ($5.6M)2019 Revenue 41 ($145k) Expenses 69 ($235k) Net assets 106 ($5.7M)2020 Revenue 68 ($239k) Expenses 77 ($262k) Net assets 117 ($6.3M)2021 Revenue 197 ($696k) Expenses 88 ($300k) Net assets 136 ($7.3M)2022 Revenue 110 ($388k) Expenses 20 ($68k) Net assets 117 ($6.3M)2023 Revenue 88 ($311k) Expenses 93 ($318k) Net assets 120 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 1077 ($3.8M) Expenses 1262 ($4.3M) Net assets 57 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (1077)Expenses (1262)Net assets (57)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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $3.1M (−52%).

$5.4M
$5.6M
$5.7M
$6.3M
$7.3M
$6.3M
$6.5M
$3.1M
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
$222k
’18
−$89k
’19
−$23k
’20
$396k
’21
$319k
’22
−$7k
’23
−$486k
’24
0.3
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

Leslie Sweat

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1919191716171819
Joined·+4+5+6+0+5+8+7
No longer listed·4581476
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $20M → $331k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL 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

STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 67% · 2022 84% · 2023 76% — 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

100% of STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL 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 $4k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.

PA
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)40% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Stanford University Graduate School of Business · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,619,334 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($60,885,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $61,619,334 in grants to STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,885,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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