GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

American Academy of Child & Adolescent

Washington, DC · EIN 13-1958990. Reported 72 grants totalling $3,186,515 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

43organizations funded
$12,000median reported grant
$3,186,515granted, 2021-2024
56%of grantees funded again the next year
20%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 20% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $29,289; the smallest was $5,047 and the largest $351,893. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
29 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
7 grants
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$625,649442024
The Regents of the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$525,027442024
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene IncMenands, NY$474,175332024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$404,391442024
Massachusetts General Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association IncBoston, MA$343,908442024
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity IncCharleston, SC$171,520222024
Boston Medical Center CorporationBoston, MA$55,894222022
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene IncMenands, NY$51,643112021
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$38,742222023
New York UniversityNew York, NY$35,903332024
Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$34,101432024
University of IowaIowa City, IA$27,318112021
Mass General Brigham IncorporatedSomerville, MA$26,948222024
Univ of North CarolinaCharlotte, NC$25,000112021
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$22,103112021
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$20,000222024
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$19,494222024
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$19,479112021
Emma Pendleton Bradley HospitalRiverside, RI$15,000222024
Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN$15,000222023
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$15,000222024
Regents Univ of CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$15,000112023
State of West VirginiaMorgantown, WV$15,000112022
Boston Children's HospitalBoston, MA$14,748112021
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY$14,709112021
Bronxcare Health SystemBronx, NY$12,000112021
Childrens Research InstituteWashington, DC$12,000112024
LSU Health Sciences Center-No Dept of PsychiatryNew Orleans, LA$12,000112024
University of FloridaGainesville, FL$12,000112022
Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization IncBoston, MA$11,623112023
University of Kentucky Research FoundationLexington, KY$11,054222024
Childrens Hospital CorporationBoston, MA$9,780112022
University of California DavisLos Angeles, CA$7,924112024
Duke UniversityDurham, NC$7,500112021
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$7,500112021
Mayo Clinic ResearchWashington, DC$7,500112021
New York Univ School of MedicineWashington, DC$7,500112021
Seattle Children's HospitalSeattle, WA$7,500112021
Seattle Childrens HospitalSeattle, WA$7,500112022
The Hospital for Sick ChildrenWashington, DC$7,500112021
Umass Chan Medical SchoolWorcester, MA$7,500112024
Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityNew York, NY$6,908112022
Providence Health & Services WashingtonRenton, WA$5,474112023

17 of 43 (40%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
12 orgs
Health Care
6 orgs
Mental Health
3 orgs
Youth Development
1 org
Medical Research
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202119$385,492$14,748
202216$356,485$10,890
202318$1,375,090$10,811
202419$1,069,448$12,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

20% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$629K
Colorado
$626K
California
$568K
Massachusetts
$470K
Maryland
$404K
South Carolina
$172K
Connecticut
$58K
Pennsylvania
$42K

Down to the city

Denver, CO
$626K
Los Angeles, CA
$548K
Menands, NY
$526K
Boston, MA
$436K
Baltimore, MD
$404K
Charleston, SC
$172K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Yale University11 shared recipientsEmory University10 shared recipientsJohns Hopkins University10 shared recipientsVanderbilt University Medical Center10 shared recipientsWashington University9 shared recipientsAmerican Heart Association Inc9 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from American Academy of Child & Adolescent's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 19 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 3615 Wisconsin Ave Nw, Washington, DC, 20016.

EIN 13-1958990 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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