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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.

$680k
Granted FY2024still arriving
52
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$408kHuman Services$185kCivil Rights$100kReligion$85kYouth Development$56kPublic Benefit$50kEducation$48kArts & Culture$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $380,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $680,266 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $300,266 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $223k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $158k
$7,500
Median grant
23
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW DISABLED SOUTH$17,500
CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL$10,000
PARAQUAD INC$10,000
THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE$10,000
PROJECT READY INC$10,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA$10,000
BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$10,000
PATIENTS RIGHTS ACTION FUND INC$10,000
SELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$10,000
GALLAUDET UNIV CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY IN DEAF AMERICA$10,000
BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID)$10,000
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING OF CENTRAL PA (CILCP)$10,000
BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING$10,000
REV UP TEXAS$10,000
LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE (LIFE) AT RCIL$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA STATE WIDE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL: $10k → 11%STAVROS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 12%LIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK CORPORATION: $8k → 8%BUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10k → 6%LIFE AND INDEPENDENCE FOR TODAY: $5k → 10%DISABILITY OPTIONS NETWORK: $5k → 13%THE ARC OF PHILADELPHIA: $8k → 22%CRIL: $5k → 10%SPM DISABILITY JUSTICE FUND: $5k → 10%PROJECT READY INC: $10k → 9%NORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED NY: $10k → 17%BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID): $10k → 20%PEOPLE FIRST WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL: $10k → 11%TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $8k → 14%WALTON OPTIONS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $2k → 18%DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $18k → 9%YMCA USA INC: $5k → 14%THE ARC OF MARYLAND: $5k → 6%STAVROS CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $8k → 12%THE ARC OF MINNESOTA: $8k → 14%WESTCHESTER DISABLED ON THE MOVE INC: $5k → 9%BROOKLYN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED INC (BCID): $10k → 20%CT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL: $10k → 11%TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $8k → 14%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED NY: $5k → 17%TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $8k → 14%DISABILITY RIGHTS TN: $8k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $10k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $5k → 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

ME
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$661k · 29 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

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

29
34

Total granted

$661k
$254k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+31%

Still filing today

90%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • DA
    DISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $85k · revenue +54%
  • ND
    New Disabled South Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue ×40 · 29% of their budget
  • TA
    THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES
    3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • DR
    DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2018 · $18k · revenue -6%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
  • TA
    THE ARC MINNESOTA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +13%
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
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
2
Disability Resource Center

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.

Human Services
3
Disability Law Center of Virginia

Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…

Human Services
4
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 to operate within suburban cook county,…

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5
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
6
Disability Empowerment Center

Disability empowerment center helps community members find and access the resources they need to lead successful and independent lives.

Human Services
7
Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance

The Illinois Self-Advocacy Alliance is a statewide network of self-advocates, self-advocacy groups, and allies in Illinois. We support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to develop self-advocacy skills so they…

Civil Rights
8
Disability Resource Network

To promote independence to people with disabilities through advocacy, public education, and consumer controlled independent living services.

Human Services
9
Pennsylvania Statewide Independent Living Council

To use our collective power and legal mandate to develop and secure public policies that ensure civil rights and expand options for all people with disabilities in all aspects of life.

Human Services
10
Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil

Independent living services for persons with disabilities.

Human Services
11
Center for Independence Inc

The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 83 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION: $30,000 · OtherMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITIONREV UP TEXAS: $30,000 · OtherREV UP TEXASSELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION IN NEW YO STATE INC: $22,000 · OtherPARAQUAD INC: $19,000 · OtherLIBERTY RESOURCES INC: $18,000 · OtherLIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE AT RCIL INC: $17,500 · OtherResources for Independence Central Valley: $17,500 · OtherThe Arc of Illinois: $17,500 · OtherTHRIVE CIL: $17,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherCANDID: $25,000 · OtherDISABILITY LAW CENTER INC: $19,500 · OtherBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 · Other+31 more: $225,500 · Other+31 moreTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STAT…TENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $23,000 · Human ServicesTENNESSEE DISABILITY COALI…Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesBrooklyn Center for Indepe…CONNECTICUT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT STATE INDEPEND…DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $18,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGT…Stavros Center for Independent Living Inc: $17,500 · Human ServicesStavros Center for Indepen…CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF…NORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10,000 · Human ServicesBUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 · Human ServicesStatewide Independent Living Council: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT READY INC: $10,000 · Human Services+12 more: $62,000 · Human Services+12 moreNew Disabled South Inc: $52,500 · HealthNew Disabl…INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $10,000 · HealthINSTITUTE …THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS …DAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP: $7,500 · HealthDAVID A WI…SOURCES FOR COMMUNITY INDEPENDENT SERVICES INC: $5,000 · HealthNational Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association: $5,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST INSTITUTE FOR FAMILIES AN: $5,000 · HealthDISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC: $85,000 · ReligionDISABILIT…ALLIANCE FOR DISABLED IN ACTION INC: $27,500 · EducationGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC: $10,000 · EducationDISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA INC: $29,500 · Civil RightsVOTERIDERS: $10,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $11,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$496,000Human Services$250,500Health$95,000Religion$85,000Education$57,500Civil Rights$49,500Arts & Culture$26,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISABILITY ACTION CENTER OF GEORGIA INC: $85,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNew Disabled South Inc: $52,500 over 3y, 29% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN DISABILITY RIGHTS COALITION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FLORIDA INC: $29,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DISABLED IN ACTION INC: $27,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCANDID: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENNESSEE DISABILITY COALITION: $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSELF-ADVOCACY ASSOCIATION IN NEW YO STATE INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGALLAUDET UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDISABILITY LAW CENTER INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIBERTY RESOURCES INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENTLY IS FOR EVERYONE AT RCIL INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetResources for Independence Central Valley: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Arc of Illinois: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStavros Center for Independent Living Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE CIL: $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO CROSS DISABILITY COALITION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHAT UPPITY THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED IN NEW YORK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH COUNTRY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIBERTY RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANTHRACITE REGION CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUCKS COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS TO INDEPENDENCE OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetStatewide Independent Living Council: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPROJECT READY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARC MASSACHUSETTS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF CONNECTICUT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENCE NETWORK COPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEHIGH VALLEY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS TENNESSEE FKA DISABILITY LAW & ADVOCACY CENTER TN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDisability Community Resource Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeople First Wisconsin Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

UsagingBorealis PhilanthropyThe Ford FoundationCommunity Catalyst IncCommunity Service Soc…Proteus Fund IncMother Cabrini Health…Christopher Reeve Fou…AARPTides FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Network for Good
UsagingDC19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 People With Disabilities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association of People With Disabilities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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 83 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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