· Public charity
American Association of University Professors
The AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS facilitates more effective cooperation among teachers and research scholars in universities and colleges, and in professional schools of similar grade, for the promotion of the interest of higher education and research, and in general to increase the usefulness and advance the…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK STATE CONFERENCE - AAUP | $32,192 |
| NEVADA FACULTY ALLIANCE | $18,707 |
| AAUP-PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| AAUP - UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| OREGON STATE CONFERENCE-AAUP | $10,000 |
| WAYNE STATE AAUP-AFT LOCAL 6075 | $10,000 |
| ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY - AAUP | $10,000 |
| WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY AAUP | $9,109 |
| TENNESSEE STATE CONFERENCE | $8,630 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,483 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AAUP | $7,500 |
| AAUP-PENN | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AAUP CHAPTER | $7,500 |
| LEWIS & CLARK CHAPTER OF THE AAUP | $7,488 |
| DENVER AAUP CHAPTER | $6,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 13 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAAUP FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $615k · revenue +88% · 66% of their budget
- NFNevada Faculty Alliance4× · 2017–2024 · $101k · revenue +43%
- NYNew York Conference of the American Association of University Professors6× · 2017–2022 · $62k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $35k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CTR (UCHC) AAUPone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Association of University Professors funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association of University Professors. Bigger dots raise more.
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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