Kansas · Nonprofit
The Kansas University Alumni Association
The Kansas University Alumni Association (Kansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,286,272 to it, the largest being The Kansas University Endowment Association ($52,869,206). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $53M
- Net assets
- $60M
What The Kansas University Alumni Association does
Mission
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective June 30,2025, the organization ended its membership program and moved to an annual giving model. The organization also updated its affiliation agreement with the University of Kansas such that responsibilities of the Kansas University Medical Center Alumni Association, a separate IRC 501(c)3 organization, were integrated into the organization's operations on 01.01.25. The Kansas University Medical Alumni Association was subsequently terminated as a separate legal entity.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Alumni, student, and university programs - ku alumni provides one of the most comprehensive alumni programs in the country, nurturing a consistently growing, active, and powerful ku community that creates impact for the university of kansas. Highlights include:1) networks - 162 domestic, international, and affinity-based networks held events focused on university issues, including campus news, student recruitment, membership advancement, legislative advocacy, and community service. Academic programs served the university through a variety of meetings, events, and newsletters tailored to the needs of individual schools and keeping alumni informed regarding their areas of academic interest. Programmatic offerings for alumni and university friends include in person and virtual events; 2) adams alumni center - provided banquet and meeting services for university, traditional ku alumni events, and ku alumni constituents; 3) jayhawk welcome center (jwc)- an addition to the adams alumni center in spring 2023, the jwc serves as the starting point for campus visits by prospective students and their families, and additionally includes creation of experiences emphasizing both storytelling…
$5,187,787 spent$758,192 earned by the program78% of program spendingPublications and communications - providing coverage of news and issues that affect the university through publication and delivery of the award-winning, quarterly kansas alumni magazine to nearly 37,000 ku alumni supporters; production of regular (over 525 annually) broadcast emails and announcements reaching nearly 224,000 supporters and other ku friends on behalf of ku alumni and various university constituencies. Social media and on-line activities reach and engage more than 62,000 followers, 36,000 mobile alumni app sessions, and nearly 160,000 unique website visits.
$915,409 spent14% of program spendingAlumni records - as official record keeper for the university of kansas for personal and mailing records for the former students and graduates of the university, ku alumni continually updates an active biographical records database including over 278,000 degree-holders and nearly 495,000 university alumni and friends.
$524,202 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,627,398.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $30M to $43M (+47%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of The Kansas University Alumni Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Heath Peterson
President & CEO
Board chair
Taylor Burch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $20M.
9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 The Kansas 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.
How concentrated its funding is
The Kansas University 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 The Kansas University Alumni Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
63% of The Kansas University Alumni Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
100% of The Kansas University Alumni Association's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $409k 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.
Against its field
The Kansas University Alumni Association runs a healthier operating margin than half 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 The Kansas University 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Kansas University Alumni Association?
- The Kansas University Alumni Association (Kansas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,286,272 to it, the largest being The Kansas University Endowment Association ($52,869,206). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Kansas University Alumni Association have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $53,286,272 in grants to The Kansas University Alumni Association, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Kansas University Alumni Association?
- The Kansas University Endowment Association is the largest funder on record, with $52,869,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Kansas University Alumni Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 16 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