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Asae Research Foundation

The ASAE RESEARCH FOUNDATION is primarily focused on advancing knowledge in association management and leadership by conducting research in areas that no one association can undertake on its own and helping associations become more innovative. With the help of asae members and friends of the association community, the foundation…

$51k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$15k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$26M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Asae Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthSocial ScienceEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$15k100%
FY20222$30k50%
FY20213$35k100%
FY20202$21k100%
FY20193$23k100%
FY20185$57k100%
FY20175$70kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$61kCommunity Improvement$55kScience & Tech$39kSocial Science$30kHousing & Shelter$21kEducation$15kEmployment$11kCrime & Legal$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
OH
NJ
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Asae Research Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Political Science Association: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWepan: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Institute of Certified Public Accountants: $11,399 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Court Reporters Foundation: $11,299 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAmerican Industrial Hygiene Association: $11,099 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute of Food Technologists: $11,099 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Association of School Nurses: $10,999 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssociation of College & University Housing Officers International: $10,999 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican College of Rheumatology Inc: $10,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBbb Wise Giving Alliance: $10,999 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Cleveland Partnership: $10,699 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Association of Home Builders of the United States: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducational Theatre Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Association of College and University Business Officers: $8,598 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican College of Cardiology Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 16.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.1× affinity5 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 Asae Research Foundation

How much does Asae Research Foundation give?
Asae Research Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $15,000, out of $51,392 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Asae Research Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Community Improvement (20%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are Asae Research Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Political Science Association ($30k), Events Industry Council ($25k), Wepan ($15k).
Does Asae Research Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Asae Research Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Asae Research Foundation based?
Asae Research Foundation is based in DC.

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 21 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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