GrantmakersNorth Carolina

American Institute of Certified Public

Durham, NC · EIN 13-0432265. Reported 55 grants totalling $3,585,496 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

38organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$3,585,496granted, 2021-2024
29%of grantees funded again the next year
27%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. 38 distinct organizations, with 27% 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. 29% 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $76,000; the smallest was $5,047 and the largest $449,797. 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
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
16 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
12 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 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
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants FoundationDurham, NC$952,197332024
National Association of Black Accountants IncGreenbelt, MD$557,150332024
The Wall Street JournalNew York, NY$350,000112021
National Association of Corporate DirectorsArlington, VA$340,000442024
Everfi IncMorristown, NJ$300,000112022
National Judicial CollegeReno, NV$175,000442024
Steelers CharitiesPittsburgh, PA$162,750112024
Financial Executives InternationalMorristown, NJ$105,000332024
Rutgers the State UniversityPiscataway, NJ$80,000112022
Ethics Resource Center IncMarietta, GA$58,000222022
Institutional Investor LLCNew York, NY$50,000112023
Nc A&t State UniversityGreensboro, NC$50,000112022
The Foundation for Nc A&t State Uni VersiGreensboro, NC$50,000112023
American Accounting AssociationLakewood Rch, FL$49,000222023
Ethisphere LLCScottsdale, AZ$45,000112022
Council of Institutional InvestorsWashington, DC$39,500332023
Association of Certified Fraud ExaminersDurham, NC$26,500112024
Villanova UniversityVillanova, PA$17,763222023
Cornell UniversityIthaca, NY$15,000112023
Cpa Endowment Fund of IllinoisChicago, IL$10,000112021
Governors State UniversityUniversity Park, IL$10,000112021
Hollins University CorporationRoanoke, VA$10,000112021
Rector & Visitors of the University of VirginiaCharlottesvle, VA$10,000112023
St Josephs UniversityBrooklyn, NY$10,000112023
Suffolk UniversityBoston, MA$10,000112021
The College of William and MaryWilliamsburg, VA$10,000112023
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC$10,000112023
Xbrl US IncWashington, DC$10,000112022
Northwest Missouri State UniversityMaryville, MO$9,658112021
University of North GeorgiaDahlonega, GA$9,301112021
Alvernia UniversityReading, PA$9,018112022
University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$8,414112021
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$7,376112022
Board of Trustees of Illinois State UniversityNormal, IL$6,533112022
Securities and Exchange Commission Historical SocietyWashington, DC$6,000112021
University of North AlabamaFlorence, AL$5,775112021
Southern Connecticut State University Foundation IncNew Haven, CT$5,514112022
Nc A&t State UniversityGreensboro, NC$5,047112023

9 of 38 (24%) 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 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 14 of 38 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
8 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Youth Development
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202117$812,811$10,000
202216$1,005,091$29,500
202315$882,547$15,000
20247$885,047$76,000

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

31% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. 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.

North Carolina
$1.1M
Maryland
$557K
New Jersey
$485K
New York
$425K
Virginia
$370K
Pennsylvania
$190K
Nevada
$175K
Georgia
$67K

Down to the city

Durham, NC
$979K
Greenbelt, MD
$557K
Morristown, NJ
$405K
New York, NY
$400K
Arlington, VA
$340K
Reno, NV
$175K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc9 shared recipientsTulsa Community Foundation9 shared recipientsThe Ayco Charitable Foundation8 shared recipientsErnst & Young Foundation6 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 $25,000 -- 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 North Carolina.
  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 Institute of Certified Public'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 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 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: 220 Leigh Farm Road, Durham, NC, 27707.

EIN 13-0432265 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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