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American Psychological Association Inc Group Return

Divisions of the apa: divisions support and encourage the education, scientific study, promotion of human welfare and information dissemination related to varied disciplines of psychology, and the advancement of those psychology disciplines in serving the public.

$903k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$105k
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 FY2020–2024.

Education$681kHealth$632kPhilanthropy$400kSocial Science$145kScience & Tech$109kCivil Rights$22kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $358,976 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $902,914 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $543,938 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 $10k8 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $137k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION$105,000
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$50,000
CENTRAL ARKANSAS VA$27,322
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$23,849
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$20,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$20,000
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$15,830
PSYCHONE (CO DUKE UNIVERSITY)$10,000
ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO$10,000
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SPONSORED PROGRAM SERVICES$9,625
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION (UMCPF)$9,500
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC$8,500
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$8,500
RMC RESEARCH CORPORATION$8,415
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL: $20k → 8%University of Minnesota: $10k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $50k → 10%University of California San Diego (Stasenko): $15k → 11%University of Southern CA Sponsored Projects Acc: $25k → 14%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $15k → 6%FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 28%CENTRAL ARKANSAS VA: $27k → 17%The Nemours Foundation: $20k → 14%University of Michigan: $10k → 14%Michigan State University: $9k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC: $9k → 15%WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $11k → 16%Children's Mercy Hospital: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SPONSORED PROGRAM SERVICES: $10k → 11%Yale University: $20k → 12%PSYCHONE (CO DUKE UNIVERSITY): $10k → 11%University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $54k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $15k → 7%Rhode Island Hospital: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $20k → 12%THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $16k → 15%Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center: $20k → 16%PsychSession Inc: $10k → 9%Loyola University of Chicago: $10k → 14%Montclair State University: $34k → 16%RMC RESEARCH CORPORATION: $8k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION (UMCPF): $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $25k → 19%University of Massachussetts Lowell: $20k → 8%University of California Irvine: $22k → 10%The SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $400k → 11%University of California: $15k → 14%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%Wichita State University Foundation: $9k → 16%PSYCHONE (CO DUKE UNIVERSITY): $10k → 11%University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: $48k → 13%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $10k → 14%THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HO: $10k → 15%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $10k → 14%Montclair State University: $29k → 16%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $148k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $105k → 14%American Psychological Foundation: $100k → 14%American Psychological Foundation: $68k → 14%The American Psychological Foundation: $25k → 14%American Psychological Association: $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

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$958k · 14 repeat orgs$586k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
29

Total granted

$958k
$384k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

43%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthSocial ScienceScience & TechOther

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

  • AP
    AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $446k · revenue +694%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +28%
  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    2× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • EU
    Emory University
    one grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue +15%

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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. 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 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%62%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%62%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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

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

31 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. 31 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $101,595 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAP…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $71,885 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFOR…MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY — $62,886 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $35,056 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCIS…PSYCHSESSIONS INC — $34,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $29,488 · OtherDEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS — $27,322 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $25,830 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $25,000 · Other+17 more — $187,795 · Other+17 moreAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $446,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOU…+1 more — $15,000 · Social ScienceTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $400,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATI…Fordham University — $50,000 · EducationFordham UniversityThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $28,500 · EducationThe Research Founda…WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $28,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVE…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $24,728 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH…Emory University — $21,973 · EducationEmory UniversityAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYYale University — $20,000 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVE…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $15,000 · EducationADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · Education+8 more — $61,198 · Education+8 moreAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $33,849 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthRhode Island Hospital — $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $19,832 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $10,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 · HealthUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $8,500 · Science & Tech
Other$640,857Social Science$461,000Philanthropy$400,000Education$344,399Health$143,681Science & Tech$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $446,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $33,849 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $28,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $24,728 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $21,973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $19,832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS FOUNDATION — $7,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $7,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc — $5,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY — $5,313 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

National Philanthropi…
National Philanthropic TrustPA7.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust

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 Psychological Association Inc Group Return 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
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 58 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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