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ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED
ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,633 to it, the largest being AARP ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $184k
What Association for Practical & Professional Ethics Incorporated does
Mission
The association for practical and professional ethics (appe) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to advancing scholarship, education, and practice in practical and professional ethics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Appe fosters moral reasoning skill development, works to promote ethical conduct in all sectors of our daily lives, and seeks to advance civil public discourse on diverse ethical issues. Appe's signature programs include the appe intercollegiate ethics bowl (appe ieb), appe research integrity scholars and educators consortium (appe rise) and the ethics center directors consortium. Appe's website provides ethics related educational information and appe ieb resources to members and the public. Appe holds an annual conference focusing on a wide array of topics in practical and professional ethics. Appe also sponsors and hosts the national appe ieb competition every year and supports the work of the regional competitions.
$213,641 spent$138,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $213,641.
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 $78k to $171k (+118%).
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: 2017 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kristen Fuhs Wells
Executive director
Board chair
Dena Plemmons
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $16.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED’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
ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
82% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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
ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED: 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 ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED?
- ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED (Indiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,633 to it, the largest being AARP ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,633 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR PRACTICAL & PROFESSIONAL ETHICS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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