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American Association of Colleges and Universities
Aac&u advances the democratic purposes of higher education by promoting equity, innovation, and excellence in liberal education.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $436,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $841,279 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $404,779 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC | $225,000 |
| CAMPUS COMPACT | $58,500 |
| OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE UNBOUND | $20,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO | $8,000 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| DALLAS COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLANDINC | $8,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA | $8,000 |
| AGNES SCOTT COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCAMPUS COMPACT2× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +309%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA3× · 2017–2020 · $64k · revenue +7%
- SCSpelman College2× · 2018–2020 · $51k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- WIWATERMARK INSIGHTS LLCone grant, 2019 · $96k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBOROone grant, 2020 · $57k
- UOUniv of Puerto Ricoone grant, 2017 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Wepan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 72 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
77 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. 77 of the 149 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WEPAN ↗
- Who funds CAMPUS COMPACT ↗
- Who funds Millsaps College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Association of Community Colleges · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Achieving the Dream Inc · Jobs for the Future Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Chemical Society · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · I Car Education Foundation · Mdrc · Columbus Foundation · Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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 Association of Colleges and Universities 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Campus Compact — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
- Willamette University — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Loyola University Maryland Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.