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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL
Aasa, the school superintendents association advocates for equitable access for all students to the highest quality public education, and develops and supports school system leaders.
$525k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants
2
Communities
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL’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
2021
express conveningconvening buildingbuilding out
2022
express conveningconvening buildingbuilding out
2023
engage everyevery studentparticipation engagestudent technicaltechnical consortium
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE$150,000
- THE NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION$150,000
- BURNESS COMMUNICATIONS$120,000
- NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE$80,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 77% of your 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.
20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$125k · 5 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
5
4
Total granted
$125k
$500k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+28%
+70%
Still filing today
100%
75%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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
- BABUCKEYE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +31%
- TATEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +28%
- TOTENNESSEE ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +20%
Funded once
THE AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +89%- TNTHE NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +70%
- BCBURNESS COMMUNICATIONSone grant, 2023 · $120k
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.
1
Arkansas Association of Educational
Education
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2
Arizona School Administrators Inc
To promote and support educational excellence in school leadership
Education
3
Ohio Association of Elementary
To bring to school administrators a more complete understanding of their objectives.
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4
Maine Education Association
Public education labor advocacy.
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5
School Administrators of Montana
Visionary leaders united in providing, advocating and creating education excellence for montana schools.
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6
Texas Association of Secondary School Principals
To give voice to secondary school administrators and to enhance their ability to transform schools into communities of learning by establishing vital relationships amoung principals
Education
7
Hawaii State Teachers Association
The hawaii state teachers association consists of teachers employed by the state of hawaii department of education. the association serves as the exclusive collective bargaining agent for employees classified as teachers employed by the…
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8
Nebraska State Education Association
The mission of nebraska state education association is to advocate for all education professionals, empowering them to provide an excellent public education for every student.
Employment
9
American Association of School
Aasa, the school superintendents association advocates for equitable access for all students to the highest quality public education, and develops and supports school system leaders.
Education
10
Arlington Education Association
Aea is a well respected educational authority in arlington county, virginia, on public education in arlington county that promotes the interests of its members and the students they serve.
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11
Washington Association of School
To promote the instruction and training of school administrators for the improvement and advancement of educational and public interest in schools.
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12
National Education Association of the
The national education association of the united states (nea) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated under an act of the united states congress. our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Assoc of School Administrators and the most unlike its peers is National League of Cities. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$300,000Education$175,000Youth Development$150,000
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.
- Who funds THE AFTERSCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BUCKEYE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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: THE NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +70% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 263356271 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 THE NATIONAL SUMMER LEARNING ASSOCIATION, 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
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 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 4% 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 School?
Find your warmest path to American Association of School 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.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines