New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,567,712 to it, the largest being AMER ACAD OF ARTS & LETTERS TRUST XXXXX0005 ($3,199,277). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundationshared funders
- Al Held Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $362k → $617k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS’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
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 62% · 2022 47% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
80% of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- Al Held Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Broad Art Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam Francis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Samuel and Latanya R Jackson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florence Gould Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthornden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex Katz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Broeksmit Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chun & Jane Chiu Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arison Arts Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS: 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. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS?
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS (New York) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,567,712 to it, the largest being AMER ACAD OF ARTS & LETTERS TRUST XXXXX0005 ($3,199,277). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,567,712 in grants to AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS?
- AMER ACAD OF ARTS & LETTERS TRUST XXXXX0005 is the largest funder on record, with $3,199,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing