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AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,359 to it, the largest being WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC ($101,990). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.4M
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
$181k
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.2M) Net assets 100 ($9.7M)2018 Revenue 93 ($7.3M) Expenses 96 ($6.9M) Net assets 95 ($9.2M)2019 Revenue 90 ($7.1M) Expenses 94 ($6.7M) Net assets 109 ($11M)2020 Revenue 73 ($5.7M) Expenses 76 ($5.5M) Net assets 115 ($11M)2021 Revenue 95 ($7.4M) Expenses 88 ($6.3M) Net assets 142 ($14M)2022 Revenue 113 ($8.9M) Expenses 103 ($7.4M) Net assets 143 ($14M)2023 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 102 ($7.3M) Net assets 147 ($14M)2024 Revenue 107 ($8.4M) Expenses 90 ($6.5M) Net assets 165 ($16M)
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Revenue (107)Expenses (90)Net assets (165)Peer revenue range

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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 5% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 181 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$660k
17
$365k
18
$358k
19
$257k
20
$1.1M
21
$1.5M
22
$484k
23
$1.9M
24
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $66k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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: $77k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sociologists for Women in Society). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL 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 SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

56%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 76%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.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.

NY
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record — $3.4M federal, $265 state.

Federal$3.4M
grants $3.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Science Foundation$3.4M
State$265
Top programs
  • Registration for Meetings&Conf$265

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 SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 13%Fundraising 1%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,359 to it, the largest being WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC ($101,990). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $181,359 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION?
WILLIAM T GRANT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $101,990 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing