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American Association for Anatomy

Advancing anatomical science through research, education, and professional development.

$227k
Granted FY2021
6
Itemized grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
33%
First-time grantees FY2021
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60% of American Association for Anatomy’s FY2024 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year American Association for Anatomy named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $190k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
5
’18
5
’20
6
’21
3
’22
4
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2021
$190k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Total assets, FY2021
$15M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 33% of the organizations American Association for Anatomy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20216$190k33%
FY20205$105k80%
FY20185$133k80%
FY20177$163kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$337kHealth$297kScience & Tech$233kCommunity Improvement$86k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marshall University Research Corporation$87,00020%
Stowers Institute for Medical Research$80,00040%
Johns Hopkins University$62,50020%
Trustees of Tufts College$50,00010%
Edward via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine$50,00010%
State University of Iowa$50,0002n/a
University of Pittsburgh$50,00020%
University of Miami$40,00020%
Oakland University$37,5001n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$37,5001n/a
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All grantees of American Association for Anatomy by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marshall University Research Corporation$87,00020%
Stowers Institute for Medical Research$80,00040%
Johns Hopkins University$62,50020%
Trustees of Tufts College$50,00010%
Edward via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine$50,00010%
State University of Iowa$50,0002n/a
University of Pittsburgh$50,00020%
University of Miami$40,00020%
Oakland University$37,5001n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$37,5001n/a
Health Science Center at Houston - University of Texas$25,0001n/a
Southern Illinois University- Carbondale$25,0001n/a
Lsu Health Sciences Center Shreveport$25,0001n/a
University of New Mexico$25,0001n/a
University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc$20,00010%
University of Miss Medical Center$20,0001n/a
University of Chicago$20,00010%
University of Arizona$20,0001n/a
University of Utah$20,0001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$20,0001n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$14,5001n/a
Lincoln Memorial University$12,50010%
University of North Texas Health Science Center at Ft Worth Health Systems$12,4901n/a
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Association for Anatomy supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarshall University Research Corporation: $87,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStowers Institute for Medical Research: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdward via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Memorial University: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuquesne University of the Holy Spirit: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About American Association for Anatomy

How much does American Association for Anatomy give?
American Association for Anatomy reported 6 itemized grants totaling $190,000, out of $226,515 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does American Association for Anatomy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (31%), Science & Tech (24%).
Who are American Association for Anatomy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marshall University Research Corporation ($87k), Stowers Institute for Medical Research ($80k), Johns Hopkins University ($63k).
Does American Association for Anatomy fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Association for Anatomy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Heart Association Inc.
Where is American Association for Anatomy based?
American Association for Anatomy is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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