Ohio · Nonprofit
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,820 to it, the largest being SOCIETY OF FAMILY PLANNING RESEARCH FUND ($135,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $154k
- Net assets
- $39M
What The Ohio State University Alumni Association Inc does
Mission
To be the heart of the buckeye alumni community, inspiring and cultivating engaged citizens. Through time and change, we enrich firm friendships among buckeye alumni of the ohio state university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Connectionsthe regional engagement program is the primary method that the association can provide leadership and programming support for our alumni club leaders and volunteers. The clubs are located in over 150 cities, including 8 overseas. Our engagement team helps the volunteers with a variety of activities, many of which support scholarships for current ohio state students.
$4,698,260 spent$49,840 earned by the program40% of program spendingExperiences: the constituency programs represents opportunities for alumni to engage with the alumni association with the intent to develop a long-lasting relationship. Programs broadly includes social gatherings, game watches, football pre-game events, networking events,family activities,alumni tours and other, group activities where alumni are invited to join the association staff, fellow alumni and universityambassadors. Programs are held in a variety of locations, some of which are in columbus but many of which are in geographic locations across the country. The association engages in a set of activities (phone calls, mail solicitation, email solicitation, etc.) that are intended to generate contributions to the ohio state university. The program is entirely managed and directed by the association.
$4,087,270 spent$156,120 earned by the program35% of program spendingAdvocacyactively encourages others to contribute their time, talent or treasure to ohio state. Advocates help to identify and develop future supporters, fueling the advancement continuum, who will activate and leverage their personal networks. Connections made by advocates increase the efficiency and velocity in which constituents move through the advancement continuum. Advocacy focuses on government advocates, the osu early investor network, donor loyalty, partnerships, the young alumni academy and the student alumni council.
$1,794,696 spent$89,259 earned by the program15% of program spendingStrategy and belonging and strategy and administration.
$1,205,659 spent$18,238 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,785,885.
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 2020 to 2021, from $31M to $38M (+24%).
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: 2023 75% · 2024 85% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Molly Ranz Calhoun
President and CEO
Board chair
Bernard Savarese
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $136k → $925.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Medical Association). These are real filings, and they are not money THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC’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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC's revenue grew 62% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: 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 THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
- THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,820 to it, the largest being SOCIETY OF FAMILY PLANNING RESEARCH FUND ($135,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $153,820 in grants to THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC?
- SOCIETY OF FAMILY PLANNING RESEARCH FUND is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC 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.
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 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