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American Planning Association

See Schedule O"Creating great communities for all." The American Planning Association (APA) provides leadership in the development of vital communities by advocating excellence in community planning, promoting education and citizen empowerment and providing the tools and support necessary to meet the challenges of growth and change.

$422k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$177k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.9MEducation$1.3MEnvironment$165kHealth$165kSocial Science$118kScience & Tech$94kPublic Benefit$49kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $184,358 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $421,972 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $237,614 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $177k
$177,108
Median grant
2
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Planning Accreditation Board$177,108
APA Ohio Chapter$7,250
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Arizona Chapter - American Planning Association: $28k → 11%Delaware Chapter - American Planning Association: $82k → 10%Maryland Chapter - American Planning Association: $35k → 11%Nebraska Chapter - American Planning Association: $64k → 13%Minnesota Chapter - American Planning Association: $64k → 11%Western Central Chapter - American Planning Association: $31k → 9%Pennsylvania Chapter - American Planning Association: $51k → 12%California Chapter - American Planning Association: $111k → 12%Texas Chapter - American Planning Association: $107k → 14%Oklahoma Chapter - American Planning Association: $38k → 15%American Public Health Association: $165k → 14%Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning: $10k → 19%Anthropocene Alliance: $65k → 19%Iowa Chapter - American Planning Association: $54k → 15%Kansas Chapter - American Planning Association: $91k → 5%Missouri Chapter - American Planning Association: $64k → 15%Wisconsin Chapter - American Planning Association: $165k → 10%Tennessee Chapter - American Planning Association: $64k → 14%North Carolina Chapter - American Planning Association: $89k → 8%Georgia Chapter - American Planning Association: $54k → 13%Indiana Chapter - American Planning Association: $64k → 16%Ohio Chapter - American Planning Association: $86k → 13%Washington Chapter - American Planning Association: $90k → 9%Illinois Chapter - American Planning Association: $84k → 14%Northern New England Chapter - American Planning Association: $51k → 10%Louisiana Chapter - American Planning Association: $49k → 22%Kentucky Chapter - American Planning Association: $33k → 15%Up For Growth: $45k → 14%Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Inc: $10k → 19%APA Ohio Chapter: $7k → 13%Planning Accreditation Board: $177k → 14%Florida Chapter - American Planning Association: $54k → 19%Planning Accreditation Board: $175k → 14%APA Florida Chapter: $5k → 19%Planning Accreditation Board: $171k → 14%Planning Accreditation Board: $165k → 14%Planning Accreditation Board: $150k → 14%Planning Accreditation Board: $150k → 14%Planning Accreditation Board: $148k → 14%Planning Accreditation Board: $136k → 14%Association of Architecture Organizations: $15k → 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

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 5 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
35

Total granted

$1.5M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
0%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • PA
    PLANNING ACCREDITATION BOARD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +22% · 44% of their budget
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · $94k · revenue +69%
  • FC
    FLORIDA CHAPTER OF AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION-WISCONSIN
    one grant, 2017 · $165k · revenue -49% · 74% of their budget
  • AP
    AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $165k · revenue +57%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA CHAPTER AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $111k · revenue +52%

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
American Planning Association

See Schedule O"Creating great communities for all." The American Planning Association (APA) provides leadership in the development of vital communities by advocating excellence in community planning, promoting education and citizen…

Community Improvement
2
American Planning Association 67 Rhode Island Chap

Promote/educate on planning principles.

Public Benefit
3
American Planning Association - Idaho Chapter

Development of idaho communities

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4
American Psychological Association

American psychological association is a national membership organization created to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives. apa fulfills these…

Social Science
5
Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

Association for public policy analysis & management (appam) is dedicated to improving public policy management by fostering excellence in research, analysis and education.

Public Benefit
6
American College Personnel Association

Acpa transforms higher education by creating and sharing influential scholarship, shaping critically reflective practice, and advocating for equitable and inclusive learning environments.

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7
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
8
Property Liability Association New Systems Ua

The PLANS organization was formed in 1970 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by several peer insurance companies who meet to discuss their experiences with Property and Liability Insurance Systems. Conferences are held to build peer relationships,…

Community Improvement
9
The American Philosophical Association

The american philosophical association promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena. the apa supports the professional development of philosophers at all levels and works to foster…

Health
10
Texas Academy of Physician Assistants

The Texas Academy of Physician Assistants advances the PA profession through advocacy and development by leading PAs across Texas.

Community Improvement
11
Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health

The Associations mission is to educate professionals and the public about, and advocate for, the life-changing discoveries made in the area of prenatal and perinatal psychology and health.

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12
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Advance pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service, in partnership with members and stakeholders, to improve health for all.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Planning Association and the most unlike its peers is Up for Growth. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%75%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%46%35–55yr16%8%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 — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,525

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

27 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. 27 of the 40 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PLANNING ACCREDITATION BOARD — $1,272,288 · OtherPLANNING ACCREDITATION BOARDAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION-WISCONSIN — $164,985 · Other+28 more — $1,815,760 · Other+28 moreAMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $164,985 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $94,293 · HealthCALIFORNIA CHAPTER AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION — $111,000 · Social ScienceNORTHERN NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION — $50,769 · EducationASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF PLANNING — $20,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTURE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $15,108 · EducationANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE — $65,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION - 36 PENNS — $51,000 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION - NEW YORK METRO CHAPTER INC — $48,500 · Public BenefitUP FOR GROWTH — $45,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,253,033Health$259,278Social Science$111,000Education$85,877Public Safety & Disaster$65,000Community Improvement$51,000Public Benefit$48,500Housing & Shelter$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNING ACCREDITATION BOARD — $1,272,288 over 8y, 44% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION-WISCONSIN — $164,985 over 1y, 74% of budgetAMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION — $164,985 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHAPTER AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION — $111,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSN 43 TEXAS CPT — $107,250 over 1y, 19% of budgetColorado Chapter American Planning Association — $94,750 over 1y, 32% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $94,293 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION — $90,945 over 1y, 95% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON CHAPTER — $90,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE — $65,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION 39 TENNESSEE CHAPTER — $63,500 over 1y, 62% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION MISSOURI CHAPTER — $63,500 over 1y, 38% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION 44 UTAH CHAPTER — $62,730 over 1y, 35% of budgetFLORIDA CHAPTER OF AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC — $58,950 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION IOWA CHAPTER — $53,500 over 1y, 54% of budgetGeorgia Chapter of the American Planning Association — $53,500 over 1y, 34% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION - 36 PENNS — $51,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUP FOR GROWTH — $45,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION ARIZONA 45 — $27,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetASSOCIATION OF COLLEGIATE SCHOOLS OF PLANNING — $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

AARP
AARPDC11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Planning 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Chapter of American Planning Association Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Anthropocene Alliance — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 40 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.

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