Rhode Island · Nonprofit
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,100 to it, the largest being Beloved Community Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $56k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $178k
What African American Intellectual History Society Inc does
Mission
The African American Intellectual History Society AAIHS is an educational nonprofit organization that aims to foster dialogue about researching writing and teaching Black history and culture. We advance these goals through a number of initiatives providing resources and support for students professors and members of the general public who are interested in Black history. Each year we offer grants fellowships and prizes to support archival research for those who are writing dissertations and books in the field of Black intellectual history--which broadly refers to the study of ideas and ideologies of Black people in the United States and across the globe. The organization seeks to educate the public about the significance of Black history and culture and we do this through several avenues including a popular blog that we make widely available to the public at no cost.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Annual Conference: Held each spring our annual conference brings together hundreds of scholars. The bulk of the conference expenses go to keynote speakers food and beverages and additional fees for securing hosting site. This year we had about 300 people in attendance.
$25,602 spent55% of program spendingOnline Publication Black Perspectives:The majority of the annual expenses this last fiscal year was spent on publishing our popular blog BLACK Perspectives which has provided a space for scholars in disparate fields to discuss the many aspects of teaching and researching Black intellectual history. The blog is today the leading online platform for public scholarship on global Black thought history and culture. It is both free and open to the public. This past year we have had about 480,000 readers engage our platform.
$17,000 spent37% of program spendingAwards & Fellowships: Funds were expended in support of our annual prizes and fellowships which are awarded to students professors and members of the general public who are studying and researching Black history and culture. This past year our awards included a book prize one research fellowship an article prize and a graduate student paper prize.
$3,650 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $115k to $152k (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
69% of AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
98% of AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC?
- AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,100 to it, the largest being Beloved Community Foundation ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,100 in grants to AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC?
- Beloved Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds African American Intellectual History Society →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing