American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Darien, IL · EIN 41-1920576. Reported 99 grants totalling $12.3M to 71 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H90Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 71 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
- How much its list changes. 30% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $83,786. Half of what it reported fell between $38,285 and $224,000; the smallest was $5,945 and the largest $599,997. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,319,298 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $723,002 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $699,997 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $498,842 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $469,999 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $449,999 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $429,285 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $359,688 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $339,934 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Medical Association Foundation | Chicago, IL | $320,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $249,997 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $249,983 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $249,977 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $249,812 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Geisinger Clinic | Danville, PA | $249,801 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $249,778 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $249,660 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $249,647 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $199,992 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $147,712 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $139,834 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $118,179 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital | Riverside, RI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metrohealth Medical Center | Cleveland, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Arkansas at Fayetteville | Fayetteville, AR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of South Carolina | Columbia, SC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of South Florida | Tampa, FL | $99,992 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Center for Veterans Research and Education | Minneapolis, MN | $97,246 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $89,866 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duke University Health System Inc | Durham, NC | $83,786 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Missouri | Kansas City, MO | $79,968 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Health Nfp | Chicago, IL | $69,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $67,915 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sleep Research Society Foundation | Darien, IL | $64,831 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $60,978 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for the National Institute of Health Inc | Rockville, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Milwaukee, WI | $48,782 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | Reno, NV | $39,994 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $39,987 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $39,958 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Shrewsbury, MA | $39,691 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Florida Foundation Inc | Gainesville, FL | $38,285 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Save Standard Time | Fountain Hls, AZ | $30,945 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Chest Foundation | Glenview, IL | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland | Columbia, MD | $28,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation Inc | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alliance of Sleep Apnea Partners Inc | Ellicott City, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Start School Later Inc | Severna Park, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Independent Feature Project Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wellness Sleep & Circadian Network Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $19,995 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beyond Bedtime Inc | New York, NY | $19,958 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | Lawrence, KS | $19,900 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Center for Pulmonary and Sleep Disorders | Chattanooga, TN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| World Sleep Society Inc | Rochester, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
18 of 71 (25%) 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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 53 of 71 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $2,369,874 | $44,390 |
| 2022 | 25 | $3,093,688 | $98,179 |
| 2023 | 27 | $3,150,538 | $73,002 |
| 2024 | 23 | $3,655,543 | $100,000 |
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
21% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $83,786 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- 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 Sleep Medicine'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 23 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: 2510 N Frontage Rd, Darien, IL, 60561.
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