Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,592,291 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,940,168). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 101
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $140M
What American Association of University Women Inc does
Mission
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
American fellowships - are awarded to women who are u.s. Citizens or permanent residents pursuing full-time study to complete dissertations, to conduct postdoctoral research full time, or to prepare research for publication. Selected professional fellowships are awarded to women pursuing full-time study in a master's or professional degree program in which women are underrepresented, including stem, law, business, and medicine.
$4,594,918 spentof which $3,293,000 as grants45% of program spendingResearch and projects - research and projects exist to help advance equity for women and girls; protect them from discrimination and abuse; promote educational and workplace opportunity and achievement; and, break through barriers that prevent them from attaining their personal goals and full potential; aauw funds research through widely disseminated research reports and updates, including: the simple truth: analyzes the gender pay gap; deeper in debt: addresses the fact that student loan debt disproportionately affects women; broken ladders: describes barriers to women's representation in nonprofit leadership. Aauw also conducts member programs and direct support programs including start smart and work smart.
$1,683,443 spentof which $922,614 as grants16% of program spendingInternational fellowships - are awarded to women pursuing full-time graduate or postdoctoral study in the united states who are not u.s. Citizens or permanent residents. International project grants are awarded to alumnae of aauw's international fellowships program who are living in their home countries and pursuing community-based projects toimprove the social advancement and economic empowerment of women and girls.
$1,498,485 spentof which $1,261,600 as grants15% of program spendingMembership - expenditures are used to assist state and local aauw branches with member recruitment and retention, gender equity related programs such as pay equity public education initiatives and training programs, as well as education initiatives.
$1,260,860 spent12% of program spendingAdvocacy & public policy - includes aauw's policy programs, civic engagement, and activities to connect, educate, and rally members, supporters and advocates to advance its mission to empower women and girls at the national and state levels.
$654,458 spent6% of program spendingLegal advocacy fund (laf) - laf combats sex and gender discrimination through case support for legal cases in higher education and the workplace.
$467,239 spentof which $440,315 as grants5% of program spendingOther programs
$148,199 spentof which $6,435 as grants$59,750 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,307,602.
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 2020 to 2021, from $134M to $166M (+24%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 5% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Gloria Blackwell
CEO
Board chair
Cheryl Sorokin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $143k → $614k.
14 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Aauw Action Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 funders by total. 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 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 60% · 2019 24% · 2020 59% · 2021 41% · 2022 29% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
24% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
54% of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC'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 $2.6M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 28 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $35k on record.
- MA$34k
- OK$700
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 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Aauw Action Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN 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 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,592,291 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,940,168). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $5,592,291 in grants to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,940,168 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 101 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing