New York · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,577,108 to it, the largest being SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ($6,291,702). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 134
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $262M
What University at Albany Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the University at Albany Foundation is to encourage, receive, accept, hold, invest, and manage money and property of every description, and the disbursement thereof for the promotion, development and advancement of the welfare of the state university of new york at albany (university), its students, faculty, staff and alumni, and any other organization, qualified as an exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the code and its regulations, which has among its corporate purposes providing assistance to the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Higher education program administer funds for the promotion, development and advancement of the welfare of the university at albany, suny, its students, faculty, staff and alumni. Scholarships, awards, and emergency student assistance were provided to 3,022 individuals
$9,801,552 spentof which $5,852,181 as grants$416,702 earned by the program100% of program spendingAdministrative services provide management and accounting services to organizations whose purpose is to advance the educational and research mission of the state university of new york and the state university of new york at albany.
$567,319 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,801,552.
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 $184M to $239M (+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.
80% of UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY 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 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
Fardin Sanai
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $738k → $4.6M.
30 of 134 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $427k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alumni Association of the University of New York at Albany Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 134 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
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 21% · 2019 28% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 35% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University at Albany Bioscience Development Corporation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY 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 UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 134 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,577,108 to it, the largest being SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC ($6,291,702). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 134 organizations giving $23,577,108 in grants to UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION, 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION?
- SUNY IMPACT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,291,702 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 134 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