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American Association of Physics Teachers

To improve the quality of physics instruction & enhance the appreciation of physics in our culture. To enhance the understanding and appreciation pf physics through teaching. AAPT is a professional membership association of scientists dedicated to enhancing the understanding.

$97k
Granted FY2017
1
Itemized grants FY2017
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100% of American Association of Physics Teachers’s FY2017 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2017 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Itemized, FY2017
$52k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$51,679
Largest grant, FY2017
$51,679
States reached, FY2017
1
Total assets, FY2017
$14M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2017.

BROWN UNIVERSITY$51,679

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About American Association of Physics Teachers

How much does American Association of Physics Teachers give?
American Association of Physics Teachers reported 1 itemized grants totaling $51,679, out of $96,516 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does American Association of Physics Teachers fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Where is American Association of Physics Teachers based?
American Association of Physics Teachers is based in MD.

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 1 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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