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The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc

The mission of the american occupational therapy foundation, inc. (aotf) is to advance the science of occupational therapy to support people's full participation in meaningful life activities.

$862k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$691k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$142,266
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$41M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

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HealthEducationOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$691k17%
FY202414$532k14%
FY202317$591k41%
FY202218$878k33%
FY202117$839k53%
FY202011$466k36%
FY20199$287k78%
FY20187$200k57%
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What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.7MEducation$450kScience & Tech$80kPhilanthropy$50k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colorado State University$436,9746n/a
The Ohio State University$249,4884n/a
The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University$225,00030%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$199,9874n/a
Univeristy of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston$199,9673n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$198,4784n/a
University of Pittsburgh$187,52560%
New York University$174,4714n/a
Northern Arizona University$150,0004n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$149,9983n/a
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All grantees of The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Colorado State University$436,9746n/a
The Ohio State University$249,4884n/a
The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University$225,00030%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$199,9874n/a
Univeristy of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston$199,9673n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$198,4784n/a
University of Pittsburgh$187,52560%
New York University$174,4714n/a
Northern Arizona University$150,0004n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$149,9983n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri$125,0003n/a
Rush University Medical Center$122,07630%
Washington University$110,00020%
Syracuse University$100,00020%
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc$100,00020%
University of Florida$99,9982n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham$99,9973n/a
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc$99,8102n/a
Washington University St Louis$99,7941n/a
University of Tennessee Health Science Center$99,2162n/a
Indiana University School of Medicine$98,4303n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$98,2142n/a
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc$95,8102n/a
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation$94,00321%
Augusta University Research Institute Inc$91,19820%
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$63,85120%
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago$60,63020%
University of New Mexico$50,0002n/a
University of Wisconsin$50,0002n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$50,00020%
Thomas Jefferson University$50,00020%
East Carolina University$50,0002n/a
University of Minnesota$50,0002n/a
Creighton University$50,0001n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente$49,9982n/a
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$49,9931n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$49,9802n/a
University of Washington$49,8261n/a
University of Kansas Center for Research Inc$49,63620%
Cleveland State University$48,8342n/a
University of Maryland College Park$46,4762n/a
Florida Gulf Coast University$37,2922n/a
Texas Womans University$36,1502n/a
University of Utah$25,0001n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri Special Tr$10,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Tower Foundation of San Jose State University: $225,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $187,525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $122,076 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSyracuse University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation: $94,003 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAugusta University Research Institute Inc: $91,198 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $63,851 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $60,630 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $49,636 over 2y, 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 13.

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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.

National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover 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 The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc

How much does The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc give?
The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $690,726, out of $861,658 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (86%), Education (11%), Science & Tech (2%).
Who are The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado State University ($437k), The Ohio State University ($249k), The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University ($225k).
Does The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, American Chemical Society, University of Pittsburgh.
Where is The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc based?
The American Occupational Therapy Founda Tion Inc is based in MD.

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 47 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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