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Association of Public Health

Bethesda, MD · EIN 52-1800436. Reported 111 grants totalling $21.1M to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

51organizations funded
$75,791median reported grant
$21.1Mgranted, 2021-2024
58%of grantees funded again the next year
37%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. 51 distinct organizations, with 37% 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. 58% 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 $75,791. Half of what it reported fell between $26,558 and $184,500; the smallest was $5,320 and the largest $7,839,040. 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
8 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
18 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
22 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
30 grants
$250,000 Or More
16 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
National Foundation for the Ctrs for Disease Contr & Prevention IncAtlanta, GA$7,839,040112024
Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth WoodMenands, NY$1,473,729442024
University of IowaIowa City, IA$1,022,752442024
Tennessee Department of HealthNashville, TN$945,651332023
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental ControlColumbia, SC$763,027442024
Public Health Foundation IncCity of Industry, CA$742,200332023
University of South FloridaTampa, FL$699,499332024
Iconnect Consulting CorpSan Francisco, CA$559,566442024
Trustees of Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN$459,638332024
Regents of the Univ of MnMinneapolis, MN$444,865442024
Wisconsin State Lab of HygieneMilwaukee, WI$430,673222022
American Society of Clinical PathologistsChicago, IL$418,934112021
University of Puerto RicoSan Juan, PR$406,794442024
Genetic Alliance IncDamascus, MD$404,167222024
Utah Public Health LaboratoryTaylorsville, UT$326,201222023
Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory ServicesRichmond, VA$318,876442024
Nj Dept of HealthTrenton, NJ$303,534332023
State of Michigan - Department of Health & Human ServicesLansing, MI$287,923442024
Colorado Department of Public Health and EnvironmentDenver, CO$276,034222022
Utah State UniversityLogan, UT$243,479222024
Minnesota Department of HealthSt Paul, MN$238,654332023
The University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, AL$211,150332024
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityLogan, UT$187,951212024
Kansas Dept of Health and EnvironmentTopeka, KS$178,321222023
Georgia Department of Public HealthDecatur, GA$163,676112021
Louisiana Department of HealthBaton Rouge, LA$139,641222023
City of Milwaukee Health Department LaboratoryMilwaukee, WI$135,215222023
Arizona Dept of Health ServicesPhoenix, AZ$134,962222024
Texas Dept of State Health ServicesAustin, TX$133,664332023
State of Maryland DohBaltimore, MD$125,000112021
Kansas Dept of HealthTopeka, KS$113,105112022
North Dakota Department of HealthBismarck, ND$99,909222022
Iowa Department of Health & Human ServicesDes Moines, IA$87,803222023
Childrens Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH$87,639332024
Alabama Department of Public HealthMontgomery, AL$82,225112023
Montana Dphhs Laboratory Services BureauHelena, MT$76,329112022
State of Alaska Dhss Division of Public Health (dph)Anchorage, AK$75,791112021
Childrens Research InstituteWashington, DC$70,000222022
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher EducationReno, NV$60,658112021
Missouri Department of Health and Senior ServicesJefferson City, MO$47,296442024
Virginia Department of HealthRichmond, VA$45,559222023
Board of Regents of the University of NebraskaLincoln, NE$42,240112021
Pa Department of HealthHarrisburg, PA$39,025112022
San Bernardino County Department of Public HealthSan Bernardino, CA$33,158112022
Hawaii State Dept of HealthPearl City, HI$27,820112021
County of Santa Clara HhsPasadena, CA$20,000222024
Emory UniversityAtlanta, GA$15,000112021
Mississippi State UniversityMs State, MS$14,768112022
Oregon State Public Health LabSalem, OR$9,975112022
Tarrant County Public HealthFort Worth, TX$9,408112022
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro GovermentLouisville, KY$7,647112023

32 of 51 (63%) 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 8 of 51 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.

Medical Research
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Health Care
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202131$3,754,370$75,836
202231$3,434,245$76,329
202329$3,862,924$91,719
202420$10.0M$40,530

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

38% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. 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.

Georgia
$8.0M
New York
$1.5M
California
$1.4M
Iowa
$1.1M
Tennessee
$946K
South Carolina
$763K
Utah
$758K
Florida
$699K

Down to the city

Atlanta, GA
$7.9M
Menands, NY
$1.5M
Iowa City, IA
$1.0M
Nashville, TN
$946K
Columbia, SC
$763K
City of Industry, CA
$742K

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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.

Council of State and Territorial19 shared recipientsNational Fish and Wildlife Foundation18 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund14 shared recipientsEmory University13 shared recipientsAssociation of State and Territorial13 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 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 $75,791 -- 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 Georgia.
  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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Association of Public Health'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 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: 7700 Wisconsin Avenue 1000, Bethesda, MD, 20814.

EIN 52-1800436 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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