Delaware · Nonprofit
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,599,461 to it, the largest being JOHN AND DARIA BARRY FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $324k
What American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc does
Mission
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large by sponsoring occasions for scholarly interaction and providing platforms for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.In addition to awarding cash prizes to renowned scholars,the organization is dedicated to revitalizing intellectual life and restoring the intellectual rigor and diversity of American colleges, universities, and public intellectual discourse. AASL supports the fundamental and constitutive mission of colleges and universities as truth-seeking, knowledge advancing institutions in numerous ways. It produces white papers examining such topics as academic freedom and integrity, the crisis of the humanities, and the responsibilities of educators, and
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters awards the Barry Prize which is a cash prize for scholars across diverse fields and disciplines and is intended to honor those whose work has made outstanding contributions to humanity's knowledge, appreciation, and cultivation of the good, the true, and the beautiful. Recipients are nominated by the members of the Academy and appointed by the board of directors.The organization also awards the Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom on an annual basis to a public thinker who displays extraordinary courage in the exercise of intellectual freedom.
$1,931,977 spentof which $1,425,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,931,977.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $462k to $185k (−60%).
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.
100% of American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Gregory Forster
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Sciences and Letters 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
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 American Academy of Sciences and Letters 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
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Delaware, across 6 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k 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
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like American Academy of Sciences and Letters 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 American Academy of Sciences and Letters 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc?
- American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc (Delaware) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,599,461 to it, the largest being JOHN AND DARIA BARRY FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $4,599,461 in grants to American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc?
- JOHN AND DARIA BARRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 10 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