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Association of Arts Administration Educators Inc

AAAE supports higher education Arts Administrators/Educators through career development assistance, various support resources and an annual conference.

$922k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $385,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $922,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $537,100 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.

$35,000
Median grant
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
William James Association$35,000
Magic Theatre$35,000
Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History$35,000
Latino Center of Art and Culture$35,000
CCAE Theatricals$35,000
The Desert Biennial$35,000
Autry Museum of the American West$35,000
Gray Area$35,000
World Trust$35,000
Youth Speaks$35,000
Museum of Latin American Art$35,000
02Your 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.

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Art Explorium
2
Oakland Museum of California

The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…

Arts & Culture
3
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
4
Los Gatos Museum Association

Engaging community at the intersection of art, history and education through innovative, locally connected and globally relevant exhibits, programs and experiences.

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California Institute of Contemporary Art
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Minnesota Museum of American Art

The m inspires understandings of identities, experiences, and complex truths through american art.

Arts & Culture
7
Galeria Studio 24

Galeria's mission is to foster public awareness and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art. Galeria sees itself as a laboratory where emerging and established artists explore contemporary issues in Latino art, culture and civic society.…

Arts & Culture
8
Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose Incorporated

MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and…

Arts & Culture
9
Theater Mu Incorporated

Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.

Arts & Culture
10
Connecting Through the Arts and Edu
11
Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.

Arts & Culture
12
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of Latin American Art and the most unlike its peers is World Trust Educational Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
2/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST — $35,000 · Arts & CultureAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WESTTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT XGRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureGRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTSMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ARTCCAE THEATRICALS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureCCAE THEATRICALS INCLATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE — $35,000 · Arts & CultureLATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTUREMUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTER — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTERMAGIC THEATRE INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureMAGIC THEATRE INCWILLIAM JAMES ASSOCIATION — $35,000 · Crime & LegalWILLIAM JA…YOUTH SPEAKS INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH SPEA…World Trust Educational Services Inc — $35,000 · Civil RightsWorld Trus…
Arts & Culture$280,000Crime & Legal$35,000Youth Development$35,000Civil Rights$35,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DESERT BIENNIAL DBA DESERT X — $35,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART — $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCCAE THEATRICALS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLATINO CENTER OF ART AND CULTURE — $35,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY AT THE MCPHERSON CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWILLIAM JAMES ASSOCIATION — $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Trust Educational Services Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 44% 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California HumanitiesCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Humanities · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The California Endowment · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Association of Arts Administration Educators 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

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    How do I get to Association of Arts Administration Educators Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Association of Arts Administration Educators Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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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