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American Educational Research Association

The AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (aera), a national research society, strives to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 39 grants below total $804,072 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,049,652 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $245,580 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $674k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
$17,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$90,500
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$45,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$35,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$32,500
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$30,738
BLUE SWALLOW FARM FOUNDATION$30,000
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY$30,000
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY$30,000
MOLLOY UNIVERSITY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$30,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RES FOUNDATION$25,000
THE CURATORS OF THE UNIV OF MISSOURI$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI$25,000
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS$24,700
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $34k → 7%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $46k → 8%REGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $61k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $30k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $38k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK: $28k → 17%PRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $29k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIV: $46k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $30k → 13%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 19%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $44k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $49k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $45k → 10%OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY: $29k → 18%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $29k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 27%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $30k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $45k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $34k → 19%BLUE SWALLOW FARM FOUNDATION: $30k → 4%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $40k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS: $29k → 19%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $48k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $57k → 22%REGENTS OF UNIV OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $32k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA: $44k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $38k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $44k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $28k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $29k → 19%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $33k → 8%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $45k → 22%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIV: $72k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $31k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $38k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $30k → 8%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIV: $48k → 17%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $37k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $33k → 14%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIV: $43k → 17%TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $35k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $39k → 19%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $32k → 17%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 68 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
19

Total granted

$4.3M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

32%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechPublic BenefitOther

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

  • Vanderbilt University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $322k · revenue +57%
  • TC
    Teachers College Columbia University
    7× · 2017–2023 · $245k · revenue +7%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2022 · $46k
  • CC
    CIVILYTICS CONSULTING LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $23k
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +13%

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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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12
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware and the most unlike its peers is Blue Swallow Farm Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%70%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,460

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
38/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $217,417 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $210,888 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUniversity of Wisconsin Madison — $178,108 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $142,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $136,084 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $130,500 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $128,022 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $120,500 · Other+59 more — $1,946,503 · Other+59 moreVanderbilt University — $322,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTeachers College Columbia University — $245,246 · EducationTeachers College Columbia UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $210,094 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $162,416 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $136,763 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $118,429 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $107,036 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $99,211 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $94,012 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $79,863 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $79,666 · Education+24 more — $654,525 · Education+24 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $64,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $25,000 · Science & TechThe Rand Corporation — $22,000 · Public Benefit
Other$3,210,022Education$2,309,261Community Improvement$64,000Science & Tech$25,000Public Benefit$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVanderbilt University — $322,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University — $245,246 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $210,094 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $162,416 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $136,763 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $118,429 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $107,036 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $99,211 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $94,012 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $79,863 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $79,666 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $67,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $64,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $57,301 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $47,527 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $34,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOLLOY UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE — $29,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $25,147 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $19,581 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $19,013 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $17,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $5,483 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…American Council of L…Howard Hughes Medical…Johns Hopkins Univers…American Heart Associ…Yale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…Hispanic Scholarship …Association of Univer…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · American Council of Learned Societies · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association Inc · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American Educational Research Association 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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: 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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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