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· Public charity
THE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL
As a global association, air empowers higher education professionals to use data, information, and analytics in ways that are effective, ethical, and impactful.
$107k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants
2
Communities
$54k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
umass amherstresearch activities
2019
intellectualreligiousacademicbostonfaculty staffdistinctivepersonal
2020
research
2023
subgrant gates
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 2 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
$54,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICES$54,000
- EDUCAUSE$40,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 84% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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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Philadelphia University
To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.
Education
2
Washington University
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
Education
3
Yale University
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Education
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Long Island University
Provide excellence and access in education to those who seek to expand their knowledge. see sch o.
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New York Institute of Technology
We are committed to educating the next generation of leaders and inspiring innovation. (see sch o)
Education
7
The Rockefeller University
A world-renowned center for research and graduate education.
Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education
9
William Penn University
William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.
Education
10
New York Academy of Sciences
To advance scientific knowledge and to increase the number of scientifically informed individuals.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse university is a non-profit research university devoted to education, research and public engagement.
Education
12
York University
Provide post secondary education to students in various fields.the university is a four year accredited post secondary education institution offering bachelor's degrees in various areas. the university offers on-site learning and provides…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown University and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hall 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$515,071Education$456,072Community Improvement$50,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY BUSINESS OFFICES ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL OF GRADUATE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST ↗
- Who funds EDUCAUSE ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE ASSOCIATION FOR INSTITUTIONAL 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
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 542084125 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Association for Institutional?
Find your warmest path to The Association for Institutional through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines