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American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

$392k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$317k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Crime & Legal$9.6MEducation$487kPublic Safety & Disaster$195kInternational$100kFood & Nutrition$84kSocial Science$75kPhilanthropy$57kHealth$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $317k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$485M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY$316,565
AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC$50,000
CENTER FOR MED & COLLABORATION RI$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $317k → 16%PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $60k → 22%FRANCIS E MCGOVERN FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%LEGAL AID ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA SELF-REPRESENTED LITIGATION NETWORK: $35k → 10%SCMAKIDS MEDIATIN CONFLICT: $30k → 14%HAWAI'I COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MAUI STRONG FUND: $10k → 9%FEEDMORE WNY FOUNDATION: $30k → 13%ALBANY LAW SCHOOL DONATION: $50k → 14%MIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $18k → 17%CENTER FOR MED & COLLABORATION RI: $25k → 7%CENTER FOR MEDIATION & COLLABORATION RHODE ISLAND: $10k → 14%CONFLICT CENTER OF DENVER: $15k → 12%CLEVELAND MEDIATION CENTER: $30k → 17%ABA FREE LEGAL ANSWERS: $85k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: $125k → 7%EFFECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ALL INC: $100k → 23%WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEF FUND: $20k → 14%PHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%SCMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%CENTER FOR MED & COLLABORATION RI: $15k → 7%ABA FREE LEGAL ANSWERS: $70k → 14%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $100k → 14%ABA FUND FOR JUSTIC AND EDUCATION AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: $50k → 14%RAND CORPORATION: $75k → 14%COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL: $25k → 17%ABA FREE LEGAL ANSWERS: $50k → 14%KIDS MANAGING CONFLICT SCMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%PROBONONET INC: $15k → 17%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $15k → 14%ABA FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATION: $30k → 14%KIDS MANAGING CONFLICT SCMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $2.1M → 17%NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%ABA FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION: $18k → 14%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $2.0M → 17%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $1.5M → 17%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $1.0M → 17%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $750k → 17%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $665k → 17%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%AAA-ICDR FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%CAREORG UKRAINE TO HONOR INDIA AT BD REQUEST: $50k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $50k → 17%NY LAW SCHOOL HOUSING CLINIC: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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RI
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.5M · 14 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$9.5M
$761k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+18%

Still filing today

93%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $317k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AB
    American Bar Association
    4× · 2019–2022 · $245k · revenue +31%
  • The Rand Corporation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    The Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island
    5× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue 0%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +36%
  • EL
    EFFECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ALLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +218%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
2
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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3
American Arbitration Association Inc

The american arbitration association ("aaa") is dedicated to effective, efficient and economical methods of dispute resolution through education, technology and solutions-oriented service.

Crime & Legal
4
Association of Legal Administrators

Ala is the catalyst for growth by providing: diverse educational experiences, engaged peer communities, strategic solutions, dynamic resources, and trusted networks.

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5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Inc

Serve as a leader, alongside diverse coalitions, in identifying and reforming flaws and inequities in the criminal legal system, and redressing systemic racism, and ensuring that its members and others in the criminal defense bar are fully…

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7
American Association for Justice Education Fund

The national college of advocacy (nca) is the major program of the aaj education fund. the nca shall be the educational arm of aaj; shall be responsible for all aaj educational programs; and shall establish the education policy of aaj. nca…

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8
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
11
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for State Courts and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%87%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,718

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION - INT'L CENTRE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION FNDN INC — $8,605,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION - INT'L CENTRE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION FNDN INCAmerican Bar Association — $245,000 · OtherSCMA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $110,000 · OtherNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION — $65,000 · OtherLegal Aid Association of California — $35,000 · OtherCLEVELAND MEDIATION CENTER — $30,000 · OtherFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $30,000 · Other+19 more — $267,803 · OtherSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $316,565 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationALBANY LAW SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $6,000 · EducationNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS — $125,000 · Crime & LegalPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION — $110,000 · Crime & LegalEFFECTIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR ALL — $100,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $67,500 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO NET INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CONFLICT CENTER — $15,000 · Crime & LegalThe Rand Corporation — $150,000 · Public BenefitCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $50,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $50,000 · InternationalUniversity Of Dublin Fund — $10,000 · InternationalThe Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island — $70,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $19,500 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Social Science$8,605,000Other$782,803Education$497,565Crime & Legal$432,500Public Benefit$150,000International$110,000Community Improvement$99,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION - INT'L CENTRE FOR DISPUTE RESOLUTION FNDN INC — $8,605,000 over 8y, 73% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $316,565 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bar Association — $245,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS — $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Mediation and Collaboration Rhode Island — $70,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $67,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBANY LAW SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid Association of California — $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIATION ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMIDLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $23,978 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO BONO NET INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CONFLICT CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC NATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUniversity Of Dublin Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ANDREW MCDONOUGH B FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMidland County Food Assistance Network — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PURPLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Arbitration …Tides FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Arbitration Association - Int'L Centre for Dispute Resolution Fndn IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Arbitration Association - Int'L Centre for Dispute Resolution Fndn Inc · Tides Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Arbitration Association Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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