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American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. Based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to preparing students to thrive in their chosen careers, and a dedication to research and creativity that…

$180k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$55,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 7
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
5
Total assets, FY2021
$38M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations American Association of State Colleges and Universities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20216$180k0%
FY20206$1.0M0%
FY20196$840k0%
FY20186$840k0%
FY20177$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Science & Tech$3.1MEducation$1.0M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Northern Arizona University$705,0005n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$675,00050%
Sam Houston State University$675,0005n/a
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley$675,0005n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$675,0005n/a
New Jersey City University$675,0005n/a
Committee for Education Funding$5,00011%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Chemical SocietyDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Chemical Society

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.

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About American Association of State Colleges and Universities

How much does American Association of State Colleges and Universities give?
American Association of State Colleges and Universities reported 6 grants totaling $180,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does American Association of State Colleges and Universities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Science & Tech (75%), Education (25%).
Who are American Association of State Colleges and Universities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Northern Arizona University ($705k), Research Foundation of the City University of New York ($675k), Sam Houston State University ($675k).
Does American Association of State Colleges and Universities fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Association of State Colleges and Universities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Chemical Society.
Where is American Association of State Colleges and Universities based?
American Association of State Colleges and Universities is based in DC.

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 7 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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