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American Association of
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1945674. Reported 70 grants totalling $1,735,475 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 Association of, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B034) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 30% 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. 35% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $231,385. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gpra Strategic Management Inc | White Plains, MD | $528,725 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alamo Community College District | San Antonio, TX | $123,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wepan | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| California State University Long Beach Research Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $48,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles, CA | $48,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Edwards University | Austin, TX | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, HI | $42,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Marymount University | Arlington, VA | $38,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Middlesex Community College | Bedford, MA | $33,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hope College | Holland, MI | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legacy Funds of Holy Names University | Oakland, CA | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Queensborough Community College Auxiliary Enterprise Assoc Inc | Bayside, NY | $28,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Austin Community College | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercer County Community College | West Windsor, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Montgomery College Foundation Inc | Rockville, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northern Illinois University | Dekalb, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northern Virginia Community College | Annandale, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Prince Georges Community College Foundation Inc | Largo, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Millsaps College | Jackson, MS | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Baldwin Wallace University | Berea, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cuyahoga Community College District | Cleveland, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ivy Tech Community College | Noblesville, IN | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Monroe Community College | Rochester, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pepperdine University | Malibu, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Willamette University | Salem, OR | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Quinnipiac University | Hamden, CT | $18,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore County | Baltimore, MD | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Whittier College | Whittier, CA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Agnes Scott College | Decatur, GA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clark University | Worcester, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dallas College | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Elizabethtown College | Elizabethtown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gallaudet University | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lorain County Community College | Elyria, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loyola University Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Marys College of California | Moraga, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stella and Charles Community College Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas Christian University | Fort Worth, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Alaska | Fairbanks, AK | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Mount Union | Alliance, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Northern Colorado | Greely, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Citadel | Charleston, SC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 50 (36%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Gpra Strategic Management Inc
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND MEETING MANAGEMENT - Gpra Strategic Management
UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION REFORM - Alamo Community College District
TRELLIS SUBGRANT PAYMENT TO ALAMO COLLEGES DISTRICT - Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network
AAC&U'S CONVERGENCE PROGRAM - Rutgers the State University of Nj
ETS TRHT SUBGRANT PAYMENT TO RUTGERS UNIVERSITY--CAMDEN NCHE VIDEO SUBAWARD - California State University Long Beach Rf
LUMINA TRHT SUB AWARD PAYMENT TO CSU LONG BEACH
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 27 of 50 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 | 30 | $791,900 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 5 | $304,190 | $23,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $639,385 | $10,000 |
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
35% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. 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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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.
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 $10,000 -- 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 Maryland.
- 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 Association of's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 1818 R Street Nw, Washington, DC, 20009.
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