Maryland · Nonprofit
American Advancement
American Advancement (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,042,998 to it, the largest being American Principles Project ($1,983,000). 1 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.
- Biotechnology Innovation Organizationshared funders
- Purple Action Incportfolio match
- Ab Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2.8M → $95k.
From the IRS filings of American Advancement’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 Advancement leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Advancement.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 72% · 2022 47% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 Advancement draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 8 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Biotechnology Innovation Organizationshared fundersDC · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Purple Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ab Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Action Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 55 Green Meadowsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Committee on Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Economic Freedom Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sports Betting Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brick by Brick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leon Rachel Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Leadership Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- America First Works Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Advancement
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Honor Bound · disregarded
- Freedom and Liberty Fund · disregarded
- Easy to vote hard to cheat · disregarded
- Grand Strand Pee Dee · disregarded
- Ohio MAGA LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Advancement: 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 Advancement?
- American Advancement (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,042,998 to it, the largest being American Principles Project ($1,983,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Advancement have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $6,042,998 in grants to American Advancement, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Advancement?
- American Principles Project is the largest funder on record, with $1,983,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Advancement find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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