North Dakota · Nonprofit
UND Alumni Association and Foundation
UND Alumni Association and Foundation (North Dakota) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,160,279 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,097,954). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $562M
What UND Alumni Association and Foundation does
Mission
Engage alumni, friends, and partners in building an extraordinary University of North Dakota.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Student support is a top priority. In FY24, the Organization granted over $12 million to the University of North Dakota to be used to award scholarships to students in the fiscal year. The student support priority to increase endowment support for scholarships will enable the University to recruit and retain top students.
$12,905,837 spentof which $12,905,837 as grants34% of program spendingThe Organization provided over $19 million in direct and indirect support to the University of North Dakota's initiatives for faculty, campus improvement projects, student programs and for the University's priority needs during the past fiscal year.
$22,429,485 spentof which $17,259,515 as grants$9,019,976 earned by the program60% of program spendingThe Organization provided over $2.3 million in Alumni Association support to the University of North Dakota for engagement activities that include Homecoming, chapter activities across the country to network with fellow alumni, the Alumni Review magazine and various other events that allow for graduates to keep connected and stay engaged in what is happening at the University.
$2,347,544 spentof which $2,347,544 as grants6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,682,866.
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 2023 to 2024, from $523M to $670M (+28%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 2% · 2022 7% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of UND Alumni Association and Foundation’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. 0 of the last 8 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
DeAnna Carlson Zink
CEO/Secretary
Board chair
Jim Poolman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.6M.
38 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 UND Alumni Association and Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 funders by total. 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
UND Alumni Association and Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
88% 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 UND Alumni Association and Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 40% · 2019 23% · 2020 52% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 32% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of UND Alumni Association and Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
62% of UND Alumni Association and Foundation'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 $9.2M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
UND Alumni Association and Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,065 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,065 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like UND Alumni Association and Foundation
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Charitable Remainder Unitrusts (58) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trusts (3) · corp_trust
- Charitable Lead Trust (1) · corp_trust
- Charitable Perpetual Trusts (9) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UND Alumni Association and Foundation: 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 UND Alumni Association and Foundation?
- UND Alumni Association and Foundation (North Dakota) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,160,279 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($4,097,954). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UND Alumni Association and Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $24,160,279 in grants to UND Alumni Association and Foundation, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UND Alumni Association and Foundation?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,097,954 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UND Alumni Association and Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 90 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing