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The American Philosophical Association

THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION promotes the discipline and profession of philosophy, both within the academy and in the public arena.

$47k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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 2025.

Education$767kArts & Culture$20k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $47,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,000 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND$10,000
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%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $10k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $101k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PA: $10k → 6%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $53k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%CORRUPT THE YOUTH: $18k → 10%RICE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK: $5k → 17%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10k → 13%DEPAUW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%STATE OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%PIKSI (MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY): $84k → 8%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $53k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $10k → 13%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $60k → 8%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS: $5k → 9%PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $50k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $60k → 8%PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $39k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $25k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $18k → 16%PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $7k → 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

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NY
MA
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IN
PA
CA
MD
AR
NC
DC
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 42% of The American Philosophical Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The American Philosophical Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$299k · 5 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
14

Total granted

$299k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+43%

Still filing today

20%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

  • P(
    PIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)
    5× · 2018–2022 · $169k
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2024 · $75k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    2× · 2018–2022 · $20k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CT
    CORRUPT THE YOUTH
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • Cornell Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +46%
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
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
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
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

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
University of Miami

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

Education
6
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
7
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
8
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
9
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
10
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $330,263 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · EducationCornell University: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $65,000 · Education+7 morePIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY): $169,254 · OtherPIKSI (PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY)PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEYUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS: $19,500 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY TEACHERSCORRUPT THE YOUTH: $17,938 · Other+6 more: $40,000 · Other+6 more
Education$425,263Other$361,692

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $330,263 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL AR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DePauw University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Association of Univer…Folds of Honor Founda…
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy IncDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation

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 The American Philosophical Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Philosophical Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 26% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% 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 · 0–40%
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 22 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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