From the Publisher: Telling Our Story Through the Numbers

So much of our work at the Alumni Association revolves around storytelling. There is the story of the University, what it has meant to generations of alumni and current students, which we try to tell through this magazine. There are lifetimes of alumni stories, those that we all know well and others that need to be told. There are the stories that are shared at the hundreds of events we host every year. And there is our story, who we are as an organization and how we impact the lives of those on and off Grounds. That is the story we’d like to share today.

While it would be impossible to capture the breadth and depth of the Alumni Association’s work on one page, we’re going to highlight some of it—and its impact—by the numbers. If reading the figures here reminds you of your own story, we hope you will consider sharing it with us.

198

Number of years UVA has been turning out alumni since it first opened for classes

185

Number of years the self-governed UVA Alumni Association has been at their service and yours

265,000

Estimated number of living UVA alumni around the world

175,000 / 295,000

Estimated print circulation of our quarterly Virginia Magazine and estimated digital distribution of its monthly email to alumni, students, parents and friends

20,000

Estimated number of UVA alumni and students who connected with one another through Alumni Association events programming this past year, including Reunions

105,000

Estimated number of alumni, students and friends who participate in one of our Alumni Interest Groups built around a shared UVA affinity or identity

$2.5 million / 340

Estimated total of student scholarships and other support we administered during the past fiscal year, and the number of students who benefited from that generosity

17 / 320+

Number of current Ridley Scholars, and the estimated number of students the Ridley Scholarship Program, an Alumni Association partner, has supported throughout its 36-year history of bringing Black students of the highest academic caliber to UVA

$13 million

Estimated cumulative grants that the Jefferson Trust, a donor-led initiative of the Alumni Association, awarded from 2006 through fiscal year 2023 to seed innovative faculty and student projects

2,400+

Estimated number of accounts our UVA Fund administers, providing financial management and other services to UVA-affiliated foundations and organizations

1 million

thanks—for your enduring support of all of the above and so much more

Wahoowa,

Lily West (Darden ’12)
President & CEO