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American Association of Biological Anthropologists Inc

The purpose of aaba is the advancement of the science of biological anthropology.

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2018–2024.

Education$142k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $15,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $67,875 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,875 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$7,500
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$7,500
02The need
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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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INC: $8k → 12%WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $15k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $8k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS: $8k → 14%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 11%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $8k → 8%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 4%NEW YORK UNIVERISTY: $8k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY: $8k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $8k → 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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CO
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Grants abroad, by region — $23k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $15k to organizations and $8k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$15k · 67% · 1 grant · 1 person

Stated purpose: PROFESSOR DEVELOPMENT AWARD · COBB AWARD

East Asia and the Pacific$8k · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: COBB AWARD

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your 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.

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University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
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
6
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
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Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY — $22,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNew York University — $15,000 · EducationNew York UniversitySACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $7,500 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INC — $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INCThe George Washington University — $7,500 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $7,500 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New YorkUniversity of Chicago — $7,500 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoUNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBE — $7,075 · EducationUNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBEWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $15,000 · OtherWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCESUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE — $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLERUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $7,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $7,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA A…Northwestern University — $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$82,075Other$52,500Recreation & Sports$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DEL CARIBE — $7,075 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Association of Biological Anthropologists 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 · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 15 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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