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AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,404,388 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,689,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $16M
What American Anthropological Association does
Mission
To advance anthropology as the science that studies humankind in all its aspects, through archeological, biological, ethnological, and linguistic research; and to further the professional interest of american anthropologist, including the dissemination of anthropology knowledge and its use to solve human problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sections - the association has 38 sections representing disciplines, affinities and interests within the anthropology community.
$1,112,604 spentof which $155,785 as grants31% of program spendingAnnual meeting - the association's annual meeting is the largest gathering of anthropologists in the world with more than 4,000 participants. The association members and invited guests present scholarly papers and research at more than 800 scholarly sessions. In addition to the paper sessions, there are discussion, poster sessions, public policy forums, networking opportunities, a careers exposition, and an exhibition with over 50 booths. The 2025 meeting with held in new orleans, la.
$1,076,806 spent$1,567,243 earned by the program30% of program spendingMembership - the association's membership department provides customer service support to members and prospective members, develops and implements recruitment and retention programs, and coordinates the member benefit programs.
$462,222 spent$1,157,471 earned by the program13% of program spendingPublications - the association advances its core goals of furthering the professional interests of anthropologists, disseminating anthropological knowledge and its uses to address human problems, promoting the entire field of anthropology in all its diversity, and representing the discipline nationally and internationally, in the public and private sectors through, among other things, its publishing program with over 20 titles published in print and online. The association is the largest single publisher of anthropological journals in the world through its partnership with wiley periodicals inc. Journal content is made available in electronic format to the association's members and subscribers.
$440,062 spent$22,237 earned by the program12% of program spendingCommunications & public affairs - the outreach arm of the aaa, coordinating external communications, partnerships, and programs to promote the interests of the anthropology community to congress and federal regulatory agencies, ngo's, and humanities-based professional and advocacy organizations, as well as the public at large. In addition, this department provides research and response support to the membership on matters of policy affecting anthropology.
$297,570 spentof which $216 as grants8% of program spendingPublic education - the association assists the membership in identifying issues within the public arena that would benefit from the application of anthropological knowledge and contribute to improving the well-being of society.
$213,134 spent6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,602,398.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $20M to $16M (−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: 2019 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Ady Arguelles-Sabatier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $84k → $137k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 91% · 2022 29% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 89% 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
80% of AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION'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 $481k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- Department of State$20k
- National Science Foundation$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,404,388 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($1,689,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,404,388 in grants to AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,689,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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