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American Society of Association Executives

Asae's mission is to help associations and association professionals transform society through the power of collaboration.

$177k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Community Improvement$738kYouth Development$48kHealth$20kFood & Nutrition$16kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$7k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $40,501 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $177,397 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $136,896 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.

$40,501
Median grant
1
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASAE FOUNDATION$40,501
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE BROTHERS-FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - CHICAGO CHAPTER: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$801k · 4 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$801k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
83%

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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    3× · 2018–2022 · $48k · revenue +20%
  • EI
    EVENTS INDUSTRY COUNCIL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $34k · revenue +87%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • LB
    LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -18%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +97%
  • THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +112%

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 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…

2
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

3
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

4
California Apartment Association

The organization's mission is to represent the ethical members of the rental housing industry in all aspects of government affairs within the state of california, and to provide information, products and services which contribute to the…

5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
7
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
8
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

9
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
10
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

11
Counselors of Real Estate

Cre was established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. the purpose of the organization is to serve as an information resource and to provide its members with…

Community Improvement
12
American Culinary Federation Inc

Promoting excellence, education, professionalism and collegiality in the culinary profession

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association Forum of Chicagoland and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ASAE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $699,486 · Community ImprovementASAE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $47,500 · OtherNATIONAL CAP…EVENTS INDUSTRY COUNCIL — $33,500 · OtherEVENTS INDUS…ASSOCIATION FORUM OF CHICAGOLAND — $5,500 · OtherASSOCIATION …FEEDING COURAGE — $5,300 · OtherFEEDING COUR…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,100 · HealthLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY — $10,471 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,471 · Food & NutritionTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$699,486Other$91,800Health$20,100Human Services$17,471Food & Nutrition$10,471Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetASAE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $699,486 over 8y, 15% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $47,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEVENTS INDUSTRY COUNCIL — $33,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY — $10,471 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $10,471 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FORUM OF CHICAGOLAND — $5,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Society of Association Executives 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 10 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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