GrantmakersVirginia

American Physical Therapy Association

Alexandria, VA · EIN 13-1512769. Reported 38 grants totalling $3,543,631 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$3,543,631granted, 2021-2024
40%of grantees funded again the next year
57%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. For American Physical Therapy Association, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E03) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 57% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 40% 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,250 and $25,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,016,234. 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
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 grants

4 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $543,641 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

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
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research IncAlexandria, VA$2,020,000442024
Physical Therapy FundAlexandria, VA$1,164,875442024
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$50,000222024
National Academy of SciencesWashington, DC$30,000222023
American Physical Therapy AssociationAlexandria, VA$27,250222024
Health Occupations Students of AmericaSouthlake, TX$25,000112023
Move Together IncNorth Baldwin, NY$25,000112021
Arlington County Police Charitable Fund IncArlington, VA$20,000112021
Missouri Physical Therapy AssociationJefferson Cty, MO$20,000222024
American Physical Therapy Association of Massachusetts IncTolland, CT$16,000222024
Delaware Physical Therapy AssocTrenton, NJ$15,000112023
Minnesota Chapter American Physical Therapy AssociationSaint Paul, MN$12,000222024
MOVE2LEARNAlexandria, VA$10,506112023
Academy of Pelvic Health Physical TherapyVienna, VA$10,000112023
Alabama Physical Therapy Association Chapter of thePurcellville, VA$10,000112023
American Physical Therapy Association of Montana IncMissoula, MT$10,000112023
Apta Michigan IncPurcellville, VA$10,000112023
Feeding San DiegoSan Diego, CA$10,000112023
Health Volunteers OverseasWashington, DC$10,000112023
Academy of Acute Care Physical Therapy IncPittsburgh, PA$8,500112023
Arkansas Physical Therapy AssociationConway, AR$7,250112024
Kansas Physical Therapy AssociationWarrenville, IL$7,250112024
United States Bone and Joint Initiative NfpWarrenville, IL$7,000112021
American Society of Association ExecutivesWashington, DC$6,000112023
Connecticut Physical Therapy Association IncTolland, CT$6,000112024
Physical Therapy Association of Arizona IncTonto Basin, AZ$6,000112023

8 of 26 (31%) 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 26 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 12 of 26 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
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Science & Technology
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
International Affairs
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$1,588,234$25,000
20224$543,641$17,500
202319$772,006$10,000
202410$639,750$7,250

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

92% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. 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.

Virginia
$3.3M
Pennsylvania
$58K
District of Columbia
$46K
Texas
$25K
New York
$25K
Connecticut
$22K
Missouri
$20K
New Jersey
$15K

Down to the city

Alexandria, VA
$3.2M
Pittsburgh, PA
$58K
Washington, DC
$46K
Southlake, TX
$25K
North Baldwin, NY
$25K
Tolland, CT
$22K

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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 Fund5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc3 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc3 shared recipientsMightycause Charitable Foundation3 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust2 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 $10,000 -- 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 Virginia.
  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 Physical Therapy Association'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 3 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 7 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: 3030 Potomac Avenue 100, Alexandria, VA, 22305.

EIN 13-1512769 · 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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