Minnesota · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $686,574 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($485,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $687k
- Net assets
- $36M
What University of Minnesota Alumni Association does
Mission
The University of Minnesota Alumni Association (umaa) fosters a lifelong spirit of belonging and pride by connecting alumni, students, and friends to the university of minnesota and each other. The alumni association advocates for the university and its alumni with a credible, independent, and collaborative voice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Building university connections-programs and activities:the University of Minnesota Alumni Association provides opportunities for alumni to be ambassadors for the important work of the university. The association provides and promotes programs and activities including homecoming events, speakers and performances, support of university athletic teams, a group travel program, mentoring, networking, and social and service opportunities. The association also supports the activies and events of the collegiate alumni societies and geographic alumni chapters.
$1,581,848 spent$204,343 earned by the program49% of program spendingPublications and communications:the University of Minnesota Alumni Association brings news about the university and alumni to members, alumni and the public through multiple media channels. The award-winning minnesota magazine is sent to members in printed form and is available to alumni and the public online. The association also provides information to alumni about events, activities, university and alumni association news, member benefits and discounts, and other opportunities through alumni e-news, a weekly all-alumni email newsletter. The association also provides extensive information and updates through social media and on its web site, www.umnalumni.org.
$1,346,933 spent42% of program spendingBuilding university connection:the alumni association connects over 526,000 alumni of the university of minnesota twin cities and rochester campuses with the university and each other. Alumni service functions include updating contact information and preferences, providing access to university departments and services, and gauging alumni interests and concerns and communicating them to university officials. The association's 35,000 members provide financial support for alumni services. They receive member benefits such as discounts, a magazine subscription and special pricing and early access to events.
$166,388 spent5% of program spendingAdvocacy and service:the University of Minnesota Alumni Association provides opportunities for alumni involvement for the benefit of the unversity and its students through such programs as the legislative network, university advocacy initiatives, student orientation and mentoring, and support of scholarships and exceptional teaching. By virtue of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association's efforts, university grads have many opportunities to support the important work of the university.
$109,500 spentof which $109,500 as grants3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,204,669.
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.
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 $26M to $34M (+33%).
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 23% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 21% · 2022 20% · 2023 23% · 2024 21% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Lisa Lewis
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $145k → $20k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 MINNESOTA 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 MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 96% · 2022 50% · 2023 69% — 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
40% of UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
99% of UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MINNESOTA 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University Gateway Corporation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 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 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $686,574 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($485,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $686,574 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $485,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 14 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