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AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC
AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,149 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,520). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $270k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $385k
What American Aid Society of German Desc does
Mission
Preservation of germanic hertiage through child, teen and adult performing groups, a senior group, and a historic museum.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Promoting preservation of germanic heritage
$195,139 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $195,139.
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. 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 $322k to $385k (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $1k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC’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 AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 72% · 2023 86% — 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.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $429 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 AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC: 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 AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC?
- AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,149 to it, the largest being VERIZON FOUNDATION ($1,520). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $2,149 in grants to AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC?
- VERIZON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN AID SOCIETY OF GERMAN DESC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 3 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