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FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN
FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,514,158 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($690,900). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $785k
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $453k
What Friends of the American University of Afghanistan does
Mission
Friends of the American University of Afghanistan (fauaf) is a 501(c)(3) public charity that advances higher education for afghan students by funding academic operations, scholarships, extracurricular activities, and bridge programming at institutions such as the american university of afghanistan (auaf) -- the only accredited american-style, co-educational university serving afghan students - and at mission-aligned partners that expand educational opportunities for young afghans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Direct funding and academic continuity at auaf during the fiscal year, fauaf granted 345,000 in unrestricted funds to auaf, enabling the university to sustain academic operations during a period of substantial external funding disruption. Auaf enrolled over 1,100 students during the fiscal year. Demand continues to far exceed capacity: in early 2025, auaf received approximately 21,000 applications for 200 first-year seats in the two days following the opening of admissions. The fiscal year was marked by significant changes in external funding to auaf. Auaf's spring semester was temporarily postponed due to the suspension and subsequent restoration of its federal grant support, with administration of the relevant federal grant transferred from usaid to u.s. Department of state. Fauaf's unrestricted grants served as bridge support during this period of disrupted federal funding, allowing auaf to maintain instruction, retain faculty and staff, and re-open programming when permitted. Unrestricted grants were approved by the fauaf board, and auaf reports on the use of unrestricted funds at semi-annual intervals. Funding deployed during this period aligned with auaf's strategic plan to…
$772,009 spentof which $367,059 as grants$82,491 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $772,009.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $829k to $4.9M (+489%).
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: 2018 55% · 2019 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 1% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Leslie M Schweitzer
Chair of the
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $65k → $187k.
16 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
50% 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 FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 76% · 2019 64% · 2020 75% · 2021 38% · 2022 30% · 2023 27% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN?
- FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN (Virginia) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,514,158 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($690,900). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,514,158 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $690,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 42 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