California · Nonprofit
UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,088 to it, the largest being ENGELSMA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Uc Santa Cruz Alumni Association does
Mission
To support the educational calling of UC Santa Cruz. To provide a means by which alumni may serve the university, its colleges, its students, and each other. To help guide the university into the future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support the alumni association activities, programs, events, administration, and operations at university of california santa cruz. Grants and allocations support the colleges and special programs of university of california santa cruz.
$275,160 spentof which $275,160 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,160.
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 $4.7M to $6.1M (+30%).
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.
0% of UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $3k.
From the IRS filings of UC SANTA CRUZ 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
UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2021 100% — 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
UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UC SANTA CRUZ 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- University of California Santa Cruz · exempt
- The Regents of the University of Ca · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UC SANTA CRUZ 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 UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,088 to it, the largest being ENGELSMA FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,088 in grants to UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UC SANTA CRUZ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- ENGELSMA FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UC SANTA CRUZ 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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