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American Foreign Service Association

AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on schedule o)afsa also seeks to increase understanding among the american people about the vital role of…

$10k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$13M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations American Foreign Service Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20
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
FY20201$10k100%
FY20181$115k0%
FY20171$176kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Human Services$291kPublic Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fund for American Diplomacy$290,506241%
Diplomatic & Consular Officers Retired Inc$10,00011%

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About American Foreign Service Association

How much does American Foreign Service Association give?
American Foreign Service Association reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does American Foreign Service Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Human Services (97%), Public Benefit (3%).
Who are American Foreign Service Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Fund for American Diplomacy ($291k), Diplomatic & Consular Officers Retired Inc ($10k).
Does American Foreign Service Association fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is American Foreign Service Association based?
American Foreign Service Association 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 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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