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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,701,980 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,026,253). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 126
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $370M
What University of Virginia Alumni Association does
Mission
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a conduit to keep alumni informed and providing vehicles to share their voices; and being an invaluable partner to the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The association, through its uva fund program, serves the uva community by offering financial and endowment management services. With more than 2,000 accounts, the uva fund provides efficient and cost-effective support for over 700 student organizations, alumni clubs, associated organizations, and hundreds of endowments and restricted accounts for organizations and units across uva. The association also manages and administers numerous student scholarships, and, through its jefferson trust program, provides annual grants to projects that enhance the university as a preeminent global institution of higher learning.
$89,939,836 spentof which $88,534,760 as grants$2,097,331 earned by the program92% of program spendingHomecomings & reunions - through a series of in-person and digital events held throughout the year, the association welcomes thousands of alumni back to uva in meaningful, social, and educational ways that strengthen the bond between alumni and their alma mater. Annual reunions weekends brings alumni back based on class year, while other reunions geared for specific demographic and/or affinity groups provide unique opportunities to reconnect with the university throughout a lifetime. Additional programming includes social and educational events surrounding football games and more than 150 student events designed to build community and class identity.
$5,514,271 spent$3,459,081 earned by the program6% of program spendingAlumni communications - the association is a vibrant center of communications for alumni, parents, students and faculty, using a variety of media platforms. The association provides timely and accurate communication channels to its constituents, keeping them well informed and well connected to the university and to one another. The assocition publishes the award-winning uva magazine, which is distriuted to all alumni, students, parents, and friends on a quarterly basis. This publication is supplemented by websites, social media, electronic newsletters and videos.
$2,507,391 spent$1,025,705 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $97,961,498.
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 $410M to $582M (+42%).
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 16% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’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. 6 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
Lily E West
President and CEO
Board chair
Tatia Daniels Granger Phd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 48 funders, grant income fell $2.2M → $2.1M.
35 of 126 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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: $9.3M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Schumacker Trust FBO University Expedition Trust Company Ttee); $5.2M from 21 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 126 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 OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 20% · 2019 46% · 2020 42% · 2021 23% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% — 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
43% of UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
83% of UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION'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 $3.9M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 30 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M 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
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half 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 OF VIRGINIA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 1 related entity
- The Jefferson Trust for the Univ of Va · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,701,980 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,026,253). 77 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 126 organizations giving $22,701,980 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, 77 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,026,253 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 126 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