Auburn Alumni Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 630439459
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Auburn, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3348447048
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- University or Technological Institute
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,182,512
- Expenses
- $2,024,105
- Assets
- $18,537,575
- Liabilities
- $3,933,425
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFERY MOORE (PRESIDENT)
- FRED BLATCHFORD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LUANNE HART (PAST PRESIDENT)
- ROB WELLBAUM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- MARGARET ARNOLD (VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY)
Highest reported compensation
- ROB WELLBAUM (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $474,940 total reported compensation
- ERIN LEWIS (CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER): $353,653 total reported compensation
- MARGARET ARNOLD (VICE PRESIDENT, PHILANTHROPY): $279,016 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The auburn alumni association is dedicated to enhancing the engagement and connnection of all auburn university alumni and friends.
What it reported doing in 2024
Auburn magazine provides a vehicle to enhance the relationship between the university and its alumni and friends. Approximately 50,000 issues are mailed two times a year to contributing association life members, and a mixed group of donors, and once a year the magazine is mailed to all alumni on record, approximately 230,000.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.16; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 120.7%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.8% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $475K · 35 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $543K reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.