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American Association of People With Disabilities
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES’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 52 grants below total $380,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $680,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $300,266 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $223k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW DISABLED SOUTH | $17,500 |
| SELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK | $10,000 |
| BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $10,000 |
| PARAQUAD INC | $10,000 |
| BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE | $10,000 |
| GALLAUDET UNIV CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY IN DEAF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| PATIENTS RIGHTS ACTION FUND INC | $10,000 |
| CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| PROJECT READY INC | $10,000 |
| LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE (LIFE) AT RCIL | $10,000 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA | $10,000 |
| BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID) | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF CENTRAL PA (CILCP) | $10,000 |
| REV UP TEXAS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $241k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +25% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- DADISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue +54%
- NDNew Disabled South Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue ×40 · 29% of their budget
- TATHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- DRDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $17k
- TATHE ARC MINNESOTA INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +13%
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.
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.
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
To advocate for disabled individuals and to plan and develop programs and services to aid individuals with disabilities in reaching maximum personal independence.
To promote independence to people with disabilities through advocacy, public education, and consumer controlled independent living services.
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 to operate within suburban cook county,…
Redefining the role of government as it affects the lives of people with disabilities
Independent living services for persons with disabilities.
The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.
The mission is to maximize the independence of people with disabilities so they enjoy self-directed, productive lives.
Independent living service to disabled clients including information and referral, advocacy, peer counseling, il skills training, housing, employment, ramp installation, emergency rent, utilities and food.
Rhode Island Developmental Disabilities Council's mission is to promote changes wthin communities in Rhode Island that encourages, inspires and makes possible for individuals with disabilities to create, pursue and achieve lives that are…
To empower persons with disabilities to achieve and maintain independence in their communities. the disability resource center provides services to people of all ages with all types of disabilities, as well as to those who support them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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.
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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 83 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 DISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds New Disabled South Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR DISABLED IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds SELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION IN NEW YO STATE INC ↗
- Who funds BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds THRIVE CIL ↗
- Who funds Resources for Independence Central Valley ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Illinois ↗
- Who funds Stavros Center for Independent Living Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE AT RCIL INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF VIRGINIA EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTHRACITE REGION CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT READY INC ↗
- Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
- Who funds Statewide Independent Living Council ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
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: Usaging · Borealis Philanthropy · The Ford Foundation · Community Catalyst Inc · Community Service Society of New York · Proteus Fund Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Christopher Reeve Foundation · AARP · Tides Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 organization American Association of People With Disabilities 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.
- Arc Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Collaborative Support Programs of Nj — 93% of income from government
- Disability Rights Florida Inc — 79% of income from government
- Connecticut State Independent Living Council Inc — 70% of income from government
- Disability Law Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Arc of Connecticut Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 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.