Illinois · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,691,734 to it, the largest being University of Illinois Foundation ($5,277,233). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What University of Illinois Alumni Association does
Mission
The mission of the University of Illinois Alumni Association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois at urbana-champaign (the university) and all its alumni; to inspire lifelong loyalty and pride among alumni and friends by strengthening their relationship with the university; and to educate the public about the value of the university and its alumni.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The University of Illinois Alumni Association (alumni association) provides a wide range of professional alumni relations services, including event planning; organizing and assisting alumni clubs, chapters and special interest groups; and, celebration and recognition of alumni accomplishments, including awards. The alumni association provides these services through its offices on the urbana campus and the illini center in downtown chicago. The alumni association also manages the alice campbell alumni center in urbana, with a variety of spaces available for events. The alice campbell alumni center is also home to the richmond family welcome gallery, which serves as a showcase for the university's rich history, traditions, and global impact, featuring interactive exhibits about the university and personal stories of alumni, faculty and students from the past 150 years.
$1,865,413 spentof which $41,000 as grants$684,184 earned by the program57% of program spendingThe University of Illinois Alumni Association (alumni association) produces a variety of communications about the university of illinois and its alumni. The alumni association produces up to four issues per year of its alumni magazines for the urbana and springfield universities. The magazines are mailed to alumni association annual and life members (I.e. Those that have met contribution criteria to the alumni association). The annual magazine circulation totals are approximately 55,000 for urbana and 15,000 for springfield. Monthly e-newsletters are provided to all alumni that provide an email address to the alumni association. The alumni association website receives an estimated 12,000 unique visitors each month. The alumni association also sends targeted, special topic emails to alumni segments throughout the year. The alumni association also offers a digital library of alumni magazines from the past ten years.
$806,916 spent$35,134 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe University of Illinois Alumni Association (alumni association) operates a website at www.uiaa.org, and provides a web-based alumni network and directory for operation by alumni groups, the university of illinois alumni network. The online directory provides illinois alumni with a simple way to make connections with fellow alumni worldwide. The network facilitates reconnecting with friends and former classmates, assists with searching for alumni nearby, and helps alumni of the university of illinois expand their professional networks. The alumni association also provides meaningful data analysis related to tracking alumni demographics, employment data, campus affiliations, geography, and majors.
$600,633 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,272,962.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $20M to $27M (+38%).
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: 2018 29% · 2019 12% · 2020 31% · 2021 13% · 2022 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 18% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Norma Lauder
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $55k → $1.8M.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 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
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 91% · 2020 75% · 2021 49% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% — 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
29% of UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
72% of UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $367k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,691,734 to it, the largest being University of Illinois Foundation ($5,277,233). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $7,691,734 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- University of Illinois Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,277,233 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 11 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