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American Association of Biological Anthropologists Inc at a glance

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American Association of Biological Anthropologists Inc

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

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$142k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $95,359 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $65,359 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND$7,500
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION (UNLV)$7,500
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY$7,500
THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 11%THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $8k → 22%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%SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $8k → 8%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 4%ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8k → 23%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
AR
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNew York University: $15,000 · EducationNew York UniversityThe George Washington University: $7,500 · EducationThe George Washington UniversitySACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $7,500 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INC: $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INCTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,500 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDResearch 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 SCIENCESSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY 01-65: $7,500 · OtherSOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY 01-65REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $7,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLEUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $7,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTARUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $7,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADONorthwestern University: $7,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$104,575Other$60,000Recreation & Sports$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Association of Biological Anthropologists Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association of Biological Anthropologists Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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