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Association of American Universities Inc

Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
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.

Education$660kScience & Tech$90kHealth$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $80,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $105,550 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,550 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.

$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY$20,000
UNIVERITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$20,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$20,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH INC$20,000
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%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $10k → 15%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $10k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS SANTA CRUZ: $20k → 13%CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 14%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE SUNY STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%University of Texas Austin: $10k → 10%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $10k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%UNIVERITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $40k → 13%UNVERSITY OF UTAH: $20k → 8%GEORGIA TECH: $10k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $40k → 10%THE ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $10k → 15%BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%Regents of the University of California Irvine: $10k → 10%California Institute of Technology: $10k → 14%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE SUNY STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%Cornell University: $10k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN: $10k → 10%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 16%University of Kansas: $10k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: $10k → 15%UNIVERITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $20k → 13%GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $10k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%CASE WESTERN: $10k → 17%University of Virginia: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $10k → 11%TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $20k → 10%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $40k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 8%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

NH
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
CT
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
NC
GA
TX

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$500k · 18 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$500k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+47%

Still filing today

44%
14%

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
EducationScience & TechHealthOther

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

  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +44%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +51%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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
University of Miami

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

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
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
4
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
5
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
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
8
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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10
New York Institute of Technology

New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…

Education
11
Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education
12
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. 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 79 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%80%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%72%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%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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

14 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. 14 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $60,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $60,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE — $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINECURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $20,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYIndiana University School of Medicine — $20,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEYRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $20,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF OREGON — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OREGONUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH+3 more — $30,000 · Other+3 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College — $60,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANew York University — $20,000 · EducationNew York UniversityCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $20,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $20,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYYale University — $20,000 · EducationYale UniversityCornell University — $20,000 · EducationCornell UniversityEmory University — $20,000 · EducationEmory UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $80,000 · Science & TechUniversity …GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $10,000 · Health
Other$370,000Education$300,000Science & Tech$80,000Health$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $10,000 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.

  • Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Association of American Universities Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 30 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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