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American Physical Therapy Association

Building a community that advances the profession of physical therapy to improve the health of society.

$648k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.5MEducation$61kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kScience & Tech$15kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$7,250
Median grant
8
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH$500,000
PHYSICAL THERAPY FUND$65,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG$25,000
MISSOURI PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION$10,000
ARKANSAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION$7,250
APTA PRIVATE PRACTICE SECTION$7,250
KANSAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION$7,250
MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION$6,000
APTA OF MASSACHUSETTS$6,000
CONNECTICUT PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%APTA OF MASSACHUSETTS: $6k → 16%MISSOURI PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%FEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10k → 11%TEXAS CHAPTER- AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $30k → 10%HOSA - FUTURE HEALTH PROFESSION: $25k → 11%NAT'L ACAD OF SCIENCES INST OF: $15k → 14%FLORIDA PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 19%MISSOURI PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%OREGON PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%CONNECTICUT PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%MOVE TOGETHER INC: $25k → 9%ILLINOIS CHAPTER -AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 7%KANSAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 8%UNITED STATES BONE AND JOINT INITIATIVE NFP: $7k → 14%ALABAMA PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 4%PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF ARIZONA: $6k → 7%PHYSICAL THERAPY FUND: $1.0M → 9%MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: $25k → 11%HEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS: $10k → 14%MISSOURI PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG: $25k → 14%APTA MONTANA CHAPTER: $10k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH: $576k → 9%DELAWARE PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%ARLINGTON CTY POLICE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $20k → 14%MISSOURI CHAPTER - AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%ACADEMY OF ACUTE CARE PHYSICAL THERAPY: $9k → 4%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH: $520k → 9%APTA OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY: $500k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH: $500k → 9%PHYSICAL THERAPY FUND: $108k → 9%PHYSICAL THERAPY FUND: $75k → 9%PHYSICAL THERAPY FUND: $65k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY: $631k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY: $615k → 9%FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY: $564k → 9%NEW MEXICO PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%MOVE 2 LEARN: $11k → 9%SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER-AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%IDAHO PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $9k → 9%APTA PRIVATE PRACTICE SECTION: $7k → 9%INDIANA PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 7 repeat orgs$319k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
23

Total granted

$5.3M
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHealthScience & TechYouth DevelopmentInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    MINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TP
    TEXAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -4%
  • HO
    HEALTH OCCUPATIONS STUDENTS OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +40%
  • MT
    MOVE TOGETHER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Physical Therapy Assn Colorado Chapter

The colorado physical therapy association advances physical therapist practice delivery through innovation, collaboration, advocacy and service.

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2
American Physical Therapy Association

Building a community that advances the profession of physical therapy to improve the health of society.

Health
3
Apta North Carolina

The mission of the american physical therapy association - north carolina (apta nc) is to improve the health, function and quality of life of individuals by representing, promoting and advancing the profession and best pracitce of physical…

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4
Apta Washington

To advance the physical therapy profession in the state of washington.

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5
Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy Inc

Our mission is to optimize the experience of aging by: promoting the value, quality, and accessibility of geriatric care; providing life-long learning and mentorship that promotes innovative person-centered care; building a passionate…

Health
6
The American Occupational Therapy Association Inc

To advance occupational therapy practice, education, and research through standard-setting and advocacy on behalf of its members, the profession, and the public.

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7
Apta Academy of Leadership and Innovation Inc

Promote health equity and value in healthcare through best practices in advocacy, leadership, and innovation.

Unclassified
8
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…

Science & Tech
9
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Aapmr strives to advance the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation, promote excellence in physiatric practice, and acts as an advocate on public policy issues related to disability. it assists pm&r physicians in acquiring the…

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10
American Academy of Physician Associates Inc

To ensure the professional growth, personal excellence, and recognition of physician associates, and to support efforts to enable them to improve the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of patient-centered health care.

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11
Association of American Physicians & Surgeons Inc

To protect the practice of private medicine, preserve freedom of choice for patients, and educate physicians and the general public.

Health
12
American Physiological Society

Empowering scientists to understand life and improve health by advancing and communicating discoveries in physiology and medicine.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Physical Therapy Association Private Practice Section; the most unlike its peers is Arlington Cty Police Charitable Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 34 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
15/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC: $3,906,500 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC+1 more: $7,000 · HealthPHYSICAL THERAPY FUND: $1,264,707 · EducationPHYSICAL THERAPY FUNDUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $25,000 · EducationMISSOURI PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · OtherTEXAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · OtherAlabama Physical Therapy Association Chapter of the APTA: $25,000 · OtherMOVE TOGETHER INC: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $16,000 · OtherDELAWARE PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherNew Mexico Chapter of American Physical Therapy Association: $15,000 · OtherILLINOIS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherMINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $12,000 · Other+16 more: $131,940 · OtherARLINGTON CTY POLICE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $15,000 · Science & TechMove2Learn: $10,506 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $10,000 · International
Health$3,913,500Education$1,339,707Other$329,940Philanthropy$20,000Science & Tech$15,000Youth Development$10,506International$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR PHYSICAL THERAPY RESEARCH INC: $3,906,500 over 8y, 21% of budgetPHYSICAL THERAPY FUND: $1,264,707 over 5y, 60% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetAlabama Physical Therapy Association Chapter of the APTA: $25,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHEALTH OCCUPATIONS STUDENTS OF AMERICA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARLINGTON CTY POLICE CHARITABLE FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDELAWARE PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Mexico Chapter of American Physical Therapy Association: $15,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetILLINOIS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMINNESOTA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $12,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMove2Learn: $10,506 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetAPTA Michigan Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION MONTANA CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetAPTA South Carolina A Chapter of The American Physical Therapy Assoc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetOREGON PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION CHAPTER OF AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAP: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetACADEMY OF PELVIC HEALTH PHYSICAL THERAPY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCITION INC AKA APTA IDAHO: $8,690 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetACADEMY OF ACUTE CARE PHYSICAL THERAPY INC: $8,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Physical Therapy Association Private Practice Section: $7,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetARKANSAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $7,250 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKANSAS PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION: $7,250 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED STATES BONE & JOINT INITIATIVE NFP: $7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPhysical Therapy Association of Arizona Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Physical Therapy Association Indiana Chapter: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Physical Therapy Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Physical Therapy Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 34 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.

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