Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN BANKERS ASSOCIATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $175M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $720M
What American Bankers Association does
Mission
See schedule othe aba's mission is to be a member-focused organization that provides advocacy, education, business solutions, and forums for an exchange of views and information that assists our members in providing financial services to their communities in compliance with the complex and challenging regulatory and statutory environment that governs their operations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Convention, conferences, schools, professional certifications and remote learning opportunities:the financial services industry is a highly regulated industry that requires constant education on the changing rules including new or enhanced regulation, supervision and oversight. Aba offers opportunities for gaining insight and greater understanding through in-person and virtual meetings, onsite schools, certifications and at-the-desk offerings including webinars and internet classes.
Membership relations and communications:aba outreaches to its membership through a number of communication tools including daily email news, weekly summaries, its website, and briefings on the changing advocacy and regulatory issues. These efforts facilitate the development of aba's policy positions and provide the membership and others with the background and tools for further use in their local communities.
Publications, products and services:the aba offers books, tool kits, several magazines, e-bulletins, and a variety of products and services in an effort to educate and facilitate the continued compliance and competitiveness of the industry it serves.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
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 $264M to $708M (+169%).
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. 0 of the last 8 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
Robert S Nichols
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN BANKERS 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 BANKERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% 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 BANKERS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 BANKERS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 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.
Government funding AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record — $1.0M federal, $40k state.
- Department of the Treasury$931k
- Department of Agriculture$91k
- NJ$36k
- VT$4k
- MA$600
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 BANKERS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 10 related entities
- Corporation for American Banking LLC · disregarded
- Aba Community Engagement Foundation · exempt
- Aba Securities Association · exempt
- Baft Inc · exempt
- International Monetary Conference · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION: 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 BANKERS ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,500 to it, the largest being WISCONSIN BANKERS ASSOCIATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,500 in grants to AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION?
- WISCONSIN BANKERS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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