How much does American Planning Association give?

American Planning Association reported 5 itemized grants totaling $209,765, out of $449,797 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does American Planning Association fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (49%), Education (34%), Environment (4%).

Who are American Planning Association's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planning Accreditation Board ($1.5M), American Planning Association-Wisconsin ($165k), American Public Health Association ($165k).

Does American Planning Association fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Planning Association?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AARP.

Where is American Planning Association based?

American Planning Association is based in IL.

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American Planning Association

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$450k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 5
Itemized grants FY2025: 2
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $210k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $8,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $179,268
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 3; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 5
Total assets, FY2025: $35M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations American Planning Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPublic Safety & DisasterHousing & Shelter

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	5	$210k	20%
FY2024	2	$184k	0%
FY2023	3	$230k	33%
FY2022	2	$155k	0%
FY2021	3	$211k	67%
FY2020	2	$184k	0%
FY2019	2	$231k	0%
FY2018	2	$165k	50%

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Planning Accreditation Board	$1,451,556	9	44%
American Planning Association-Wisconsin	$164,985	1	74%
American Public Health Association	$164,985	1	1%
American Planning Assn 43 Texas Cpt	$115,250	2	19%
California Chapter American Planning Association	$111,000	1	8%
Oregon Chapter - American Planning Association	$96,000	1	n/a
Colorado Chapter American Planning Association	$94,750	1	32%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$94,293	3	0%
American Planning Association	$93,250	2	n/a
American Planning Association	$90,945	1	95%

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All grantees of American Planning Association by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Planning Accreditation Board	$1,451,556	9	44%
American Planning Association-Wisconsin	$164,985	1	74%
American Public Health Association	$164,985	1	1%
American Planning Assn 43 Texas Cpt	$115,250	2	19%
California Chapter American Planning Association	$111,000	1	8%
Oregon Chapter - American Planning Association	$96,000	1	n/a
Colorado Chapter American Planning Association	$94,750	1	32%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$94,293	3	0%
American Planning Association	$93,250	2	n/a
American Planning Association	$90,945	1	95%
American Planning Association Washington Chapter	$90,000	1	29%
American Planning Association	$88,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association - Il Chapter	$83,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$82,250	1	n/a
Rhode Island Chapter - American Planning Association	$76,000	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$73,897	2	n/a
Anthropocene Alliance	$65,000	1	7%
Minnesota Chapter - American Planning Association	$63,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association Missouri Chapter	$63,500	1	38%
American Planning Association 39 Tennessee Chapter	$63,500	1	62%
Indiana Chapter - American Planning Association	$63,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association 44 Utah Chapter	$62,730	1	35%
NM Chapter American Planning Association Inc	$60,200	2	10%
Florida Chapter of American Planning Association Inc	$58,950	2	7%
Georgia Chapter of the American Planning Association	$53,500	1	34%
American Planning Association Iowa Chapter	$53,500	1	54%
Arkansas Chapter of American Planning Association	$52,885	1	n/a
American Planning Association - 36 Penns	$51,000	1	16%
Northern New England Chapter American Planning Association	$50,769	1	n/a
American Planning Association - New York Metro Chapter Inc	$48,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$48,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$48,500	1	n/a
Up for Growth	$45,000	1	3%
American Planning Association	$37,500	1	n/a
Maryland Chapter - American Planning Association	$35,000	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$32,500	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$31,250	1	n/a
American Planning Association Arizona 45	$27,500	1	14%
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning	$20,000	2	2%
Association of Architecture Organizations Inc	$15,108	1	n/a
American Planning Association	$5,400	1	0%

American Planning Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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.

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

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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.

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About American Planning Association

How much does American Planning Association give?: American Planning Association reported 5 itemized grants totaling $209,765, out of $449,797 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does American Planning Association fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (49%), Education (34%), Environment (4%).
Who are American Planning Association's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planning Accreditation Board ($1.5M), American Planning Association-Wisconsin ($165k), American Public Health Association ($165k).
Does American Planning Association fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Planning Association?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AARP.
Where is American Planning Association based?: American Planning Association is based in IL.