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College Art Association of America Inc

The college art association (caa), as the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promotes these arts and their understanding through advocacy, intellectual engagement, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$541kArts & Culture$267kHealth$18k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $17,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $191,832 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $174,332 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The University of Delaware Press: $15k → 10%THE MIT PRESS: $25k → 8%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $18k → 12%University of Minnesota: $8k → 11%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $9k → 12%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $43k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: $8k → 10%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS: $10k → 17%DANCING FOXES PRESS LLC: $15k → 20%WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%University of Okalahoma: $10k → 13%The University of Alabama Press: $10k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $25k → 12%Duke University Press: $36k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS: $6k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS: $72k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS: $16k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI: $10k → 18%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS: $14k → 11%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 23%THE MIT PRESS: $11k → 8%University of Pennsylvania Press: $7k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $19k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: $24k → 10%CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $12k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS: $11k → 14%THE MIT PRESS: $7k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: $7k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $19k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: $12k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS: $7k → 9%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: $12k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS: $7k → 9%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $16k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS: $10k → 10%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
NC
OK
LA
MS
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$460k · 7 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$460k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-2%

Still filing today

29%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $137k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    4× · 2017–2024 · $96k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • DF
    DANCING FOXES PRESS LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +29%
  • PU
    Princeton University Press
    one grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
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
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
10
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
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is Columbia University Press. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $136,893 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $96,150 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $78,400 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $23,500 · OtherDANCING FOXES PRESS LLC: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $67,197 · Other+7 moreYale University: $162,200 · EducationYale UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $83,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $42,500 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Chicago: $26,800 · EducationUniversity of Chicago+3 more: $27,600 · Education+3 morePrinceton University Press: $13,500 · Arts & CultureColumbia University Press: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUC PRESS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$447,140Education$342,600Arts & Culture$37,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYale University: $162,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $83,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $26,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton University Press: $13,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE: $9,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC PRESS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Pennsylvania Press Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds Princeton University Press ↗
  • Who funds THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LYCOMING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds UC PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Pennsylvania Press Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS INC ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization College Art Association of America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from College Art Association of America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Yale University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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