Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,309,361 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,553,800). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $60M
What American Political Science Association does
Mission
The American Political Science Association ("apsa") supports excellence in scholarship and teaching and informed discourse about politics, policy, and civic participation. The association promotes a lively, diverse community of scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners who bring wide-ranging interests, methodologies, and perspectives to the analysis and conduct of government and politics. The association disseminates information, facilitates collaboration among its members, and publicizes research findings on important theoretical and political issues, and publishes a variety of materials relevant to the discipline. It enhances the capacity of political scientists to conduct research, improve teaching, develop professionally, and communicate their ideas within the discipline and to wider publics.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Apsa annual meeting, conference on teaching and learning and virtual research conference: the apsa annual meeting is the largest conference in political science. The annual meeting typically draws around 6,000 participants and consists of over 1,200 panel sessions over a 4.5 day period in which the members' research is presented in a variety of formats. Most of the panel sessions involve paper presentations and discussion, although some are roundtable discussions featuring experts in the fields. Plenary sessions feature distinguished writers within subfields. The meeting is generally held in the august/september timeframe. The apsa exhibition features the largest assembly of political science textbook publishers nationally and provides publishing opportunities for the membership. The conference on teaching and learning in political science: the apsa teaching & learning conference convenes biannually to address issues of curriculum, pedagogy, program assessment, civic education, teaching research methods, internationalizing the curriculum, simulations and role play, and inclusiveness in undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning in political science. The conference follows a…
$1,642,873 spentof which $32,431 as grants$2,110,934 earned by the program19% of program spendingJournals: apsa sponsors and supports four journals that are core to the political science discipline: the american political science review, perspectives on politics, ps: political science and politics, and the journal of political science education. The american political science review (apsr) is political science's premier scholarly research journal, providing peer reviewed articles and review essays from subfields throughout the discipline. Areas covered include political theory, american politics, public policy, public administration, comparative politics, and international relations. Apsr has published continuously since 1906. Perspectives on politics (pop) seeks to provide a space for broad and synthetic discussion within the political science profession and between the profession and the broader scholarly and reading publics. Such discussion necessarily draws on and contributes to the scholarship published in the more specialized journals that dominate our discipline. At the same time, pop seeks to promote a complementary form of broad public discussion and synergistic understanding within the profession that is essential to advancing research and promoting scholarly…
$1,313,018 spent$169,190 earned by the program16% of program spendingMembership department: the association brings together, through membership, political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors in order to expand awareness of political life.
$1,047,170 spentof which $210,046 as grants$1,993,869 earned by the program12% of program spendingCongressional fellowship
$669,725 spent$163,237 earned by the program8% of program spendingAcademic & professional development
$346,343 spent4% of program spendingCentennial center for political science and public affairs
$339,353 spent4% of program spendingMena programs & workshops
$338,107 spent4% of program spendingPublic engagement & government relations
$199,005 spent2% of program spendingDepartmental services
$1,900 spent0% of program spendingOther programs
$2,560,820 spentof which $1,296,577 as grants30% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,458,314.
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 $62M to $48M (−22%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE 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 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $533k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 48% · 2020 98% · 2021 33% · 2022 53% · 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record — $2.9M federal, $110 state.
- National Science Foundation$2.9M
- Membership in Organizations$110
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 POLITICAL SCIENCE 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.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE 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 POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,309,361 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($2,553,800). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $3,309,361 in grants to AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $2,553,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE 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.
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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 17 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