How much did AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE grant in FY2024?

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE reported 52 grants totaling $680,266 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE based?

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE is based in DC.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE

Primary exempt purpose: the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE with disabilities works to improve the lives of people with disabilities by acting as a convener, connector, and catalyst for change, increasing the political and economic power of people with disabilities.

$680k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$18k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

core

2019

core

2020

advocates promotesrevprovision informationexpressedprotectsemploymentarc

2021

research

2022

revindependentlylivebuildbuildingrightsdisability

2023

revindependenceaccesslvcilgallaudetrangedeaf

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k37 grants · $223k
$10k–50k15 grants · $158k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

NEW DISABLED SOUTH$17,500
THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE$10,000
SELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$10,000
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$10,000
CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL$10,000
PARAQUAD INC$10,000
GALLAUDET UNIV CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY IN DEAF AMERICA$10,000
BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID)$10,000
LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE (LIFE) AT RCIL$10,000
PATIENTS RIGHTS ACTION FUND INC$10,000
PROJECT READY INC$10,000
REV UP TEXAS$10,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA$10,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF CENTRAL PA (CILCP)$10,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$651k · 29 repeat orgs$409k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$651k

$264k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+47%

Still filing today

90%

77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther

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

DA
DISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA -DBA DISABILITY LINK
3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue +33%
ND
NEW DISABLED SOUTH
3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +3852% · 29% of their budget
MD
MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION
3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +52%

Funded once

DR
DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +34%
RU
REV UP TEXAS
one grant, 2020 · $17k
TA
THE ARC MINNESOTA INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +542%

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

04Your 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.

Alliance of Disability Advocates

To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.

Religion

Center for Disabilities

Empowering people with disabilities to function as independently as possible and to be active, contributing members of society.

Human Services

Accessability Ctr for Independent Living

Accessability center for independent living, inc was organized to provide counseling, training, and advocacy services which assist people with disability to live and function independently.

—

Disability Rights and Resource Center Inc

To advocate for disabled individuals and to plan and develop programs and services to aid individuals with disabilities in reaching maximum personal independence.

Health

Disability Policy Consortium Inc

Public policy advocacy for disabled.

Civil Rights

Disabled Information Awareness and Living Inc

a federally mandated disability services agency providing information and referral, technical guidance, advocacy services, peer counseling, independent living skills programs, community education, and community recreation

Human Services

Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil

Independent living services for persons with disabilities.

Human Services

Progress Center for Independent Living

Progress center for independent living is a consumer controlled, community-based, cross-disability, nonresidential, private nonprofit agency that has been designed by individuals with disa biilities.

—

Accessible Resources for Independence Inc

The mission is to maximize the independence of people with disabilities so they enjoy self-directed, productive lives.

Human Services

Direct Center for Independence Inc

DIRECT Center for Independence, Inc. advocates voice, choice and independence for people with disabilities. Directs vision is universal access and opportunity for all people with disabilities.

Human Services

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities

Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes within communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires,and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…

Health

The Arc Alliance Advocacy Services

To provide supports coordination for individuals with disabilities

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Independently Is for Everyone At and the most unlike its peers is Gallaudet University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/83

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,482

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.

05the grantee network

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/72

Grantees still filing

57/72

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$506,000Human Services$240,500Health$95,000Religion$85,000Education$57,500Civil Rights$49,500Arts & Culture$26,000

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.

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.

UsagingDC17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Usaging · Borealis Philanthropy · Community Catalyst Inc · The Ford Foundation · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good

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 organisation AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEW DISABLED SOUTH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 39.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 882606879 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NEW DISABLED SOUTH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to American Association of People?

Find your warmest path to American Association of People through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Association of People?

More from the funding graph

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

72 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to American Association of People?

More from the funding graph