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American Finance Association

The organization's mission is to improve public understanding of financial problems and promote finance scholarship. The organization is devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics.

$221k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$10k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$32M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations American Finance Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$10k0%
FY20221$50k100%
FY20201$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$67k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Chicago$50,00010%
New York University$17,00020%

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About American Finance Association

How much does American Finance Association give?
American Finance Association reported 1 itemized grants totaling $10,000, out of $221,328 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does American Finance Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are American Finance Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($50k), New York University ($17k).
Does American Finance Association fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is American Finance Association based?
American Finance Association is based in PA.

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 2 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 2024, released 2024. 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 $227k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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