University of Texas at San Antonio Alumni Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 741977996
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Antonio, TX, USA
- Phone
- 2104584133
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,487,687
- Expenses
- $1,548,441
- Assets
- $3,822,169
- Liabilities
- $261,676
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JACOB CAVAZOS (PRESIDENT)
- LAURA BETH GARCIA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RUSSELL WAGNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RUSSELL WAGNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $149,212 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To engage our alumni in activities that will advance utsa as a top-tier institution. Our focus is to deliver value-added services and events where our alumni can connect with each other, with current students and/or with the university. We invest in programs that enable accessibility to higher education and support local community educational initiatives. In doing so, we strive to create a sense of pride, purpose and philanthropy that is the essence of the utsa alumni association membership experience.
What it reported doing in 2024
Alumni relations: utsa alumni association is a membership organization that provides services, programs and events to involve alumni, to support the educational activities of the university, and to support policies generally favorable to higher education. Alumni programs are designed to connect and build relationships between alumni, current students, the utsa alumni association and the university of Texas at san antonio.
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 85% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.5%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 65.2%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.3%; rating input score 98; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.5% of revenue deployed · 65.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 32 of 32 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $149K · 31 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.