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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.

$841k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$4.1MCommunity Improvement$507kEnvironment$228kCivil Rights$167kArts & Culture$165kScience & Tech$150kSocial Science$134kPublic Benefit$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $436,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $841,279 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $404,779 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $284k
$8,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC$225,000
CAMPUS COMPACT$58,500
OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY$25,000
ROCK VALLEY COLLEGE$20,000
COLLEGE UNBOUND$20,000
DALLAS COLLEGE$8,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLANDINC$8,000
ST EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY$8,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO$8,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA$8,000
GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY$8,000
SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA$8,000
CLARK UNIVERSITY$8,000
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$8,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMPUS COMPACT: $59k → 16%HAMLINE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%Westminster College: $50k → 13%Community College of Philadelphia: $46k → 22%SAN BERNARDINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT - CRAFTON HILLS: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $49k → 9%FINGER LAKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30k → 10%MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30k → 14%AUSTIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $30k → 10%ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $100k → 16%KILGORE COLLEGE: $30k → 16%University of Houston-Downtown: $46k → 16%SOUTH TEXAS COLLEGE: $30k → 27%ALAMO COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $60k → 29%DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE: $30k → 13%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $30k → 15%Lawrence Tech University: $50k → 8%NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $30k → 10%CHATTANOOGA STATE: $30k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 11%Winston-Salem State University: $46k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - GREENSBORO: $57k → 16%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $30k → 13%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $156k → 16%WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $30k → 8%MILLSAPS COLLEGE: $30k → 23%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NJ: $40k → 16%MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $39k → 7%GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC: $231k → 8%GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC: $296k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY: $30k → 11%MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $34k → 8%SANTA CLARITA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT: $67k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HONOLULU: $30k → 9%HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $30k → 16%WOMEN IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS AND ADVOCATES NETWORK: $50k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC: $225k → 8%WATERMARK INSIGHTS LLC: $96k → 17%WOMEN IN ENGINEERING PROGRAMS & ADVOCATES NETWORK: $50k → 14%GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: $197k → 8%Morgan State University: $50k → 19%Smith College: $50k → 12%DIGICATION: $236k → 14%GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC: $100k → 8%DIGICATION: $134k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RF: $39k → 14%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $39k → 14%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

AK
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 43 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
101

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+22%

Still filing today

47%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CAMPUS COMPACT
    2× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +309%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    3× · 2017–2020 · $64k · revenue +7%
  • SC
    Spelman College
    2× · 2018–2020 · $51k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • WI
    WATERMARK INSIGHTS LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $96k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2020 · $57k
  • UO
    Univ of Puerto Rico
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
6
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
7
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
8
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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12
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 149 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
58/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INC: $1,076,892 · OtherGPRA STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INCDIGICATION: $370,677 · OtherDIGICATIONIndiana University School of Medicine: $316,669 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineALAMO COLLEGES DISTRICT: $183,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $144,676 · Other+77 more: $2,088,110 · Other+77 moreCAMPUS COMPACT: $73,500 · EducationCAMPUS COMPACTMillsaps College: $71,000 · EducationMillsaps CollegeTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $63,750 · EducationSt Edwards University: $53,000 · EducationSpelman College: $51,000 · EducationLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $49,880 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $49,745 · EducationWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $49,628 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $48,500 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $48,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $48,500 · Education+54 more: $693,915 · Education+54 moreWEPAN: $100,000 · Science & TechBROWN UNIVERSITY: $51,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,180,024Education$1,300,918Science & Tech$100,000Community Improvement$51,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEPAN: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCAMPUS COMPACT: $73,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMillsaps College: $71,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $63,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Edwards University: $53,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $51,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $51,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $49,880 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $49,745 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY: $49,628 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $48,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $48,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $48,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $38,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE COLLEGE: $28,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY: $28,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE AUXILIARY ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION: $28,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCollege Unbound: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPRINCE GEORGE'S COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOhio Northern University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $21,997 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOtterbein University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarywood University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $18,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE HIGHER EDUCATION EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Engineering Education: $13,691 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhittier College: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $12,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $12,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $12,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $12,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Mount Union: $10,000 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.

  • 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Association …National Collegiate A…Achieving the Dream I…Jobs for the Future I…Folds of Honor Founda…Tulsa Community Found…American Chemical Soc…Howard Hughes Medical…I Car Education Found…MdrcColumbus FoundationCorporation for Publi…
American Association of Community CollegesDC44.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
9report 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
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 149 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home