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AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC

AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$161k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$947k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What American Catholic Philosophical Assoc does

Mission

The American Catholic Philosophical Association (acpa) is an organization of catholic philosophers established in 1926 to promote the advancement of philosophy as an intellectual discipline consonant with catholic tradition. To achieve this objective, the organization strives to develop philosophical scholarship, to improve the teaching of philosophy, and to communicate with other individuals and groups with similar aims. The organization sponsors an annual conference and several scholarly publications, including a peer-reviewed journal, american catholic philosophical quarterly, and the proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Individuual and institutional members of the acpa receive online access to all acpa publications as a benefit of membership.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization strives to develop philosophical scholarship, to improve the teaching of philosophy, and to communicate with other individuals and groups with similar aims.

    $127,836 spent$64,784 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $127,836.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($193k) Expenses 100 ($114k) Net assets 100 ($778k)2018 Revenue 23 ($45k) Expenses 138 ($158k) Net assets 86 ($666k)2019 Revenue 73 ($141k) Expenses 116 ($133k) Net assets 104 ($807k)2020 Revenue 35 ($69k) Expenses 47 ($53k) Net assets 107 ($830k)2021 Revenue 97 ($187k) Expenses 89 ($101k) Net assets 134 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 80 ($155k) Expenses 103 ($117k) Net assets 112 ($873k)2023 Revenue 78 ($150k) Expenses 129 ($147k) Net assets 120 ($934k)2024 Revenue 83 ($161k) Expenses 166 ($190k) Net assets 122 ($947k)
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Revenue (83)Expenses (166)Net assets (122)

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 $830k to $1.1M (+28%).

$812k
$666k
$812k
$830k
$1.1M
$919k
$960k
$984k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$79k
’17
−$113k
’18
$8k
’19
$15k
’20
$86k
’21
$38k
’22
$3k
’23
−$29k
’24
1.0
months of
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.

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Listed2018182020202020
Joined·+5+6+7+6+0+6+0
No longer listed·7656060
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
total
Baylor Universityunclassified
$9k
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC’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.

Where its funders are

100% of AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC: 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 CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC?
AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,000 in grants to AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC?
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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