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OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,314 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($73,330). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$168k
Grants received
$2.1M
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($762k) Expenses 100 ($683k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 110 ($836k) Expenses 123 ($841k) Net assets 102 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 110 ($839k) Expenses 118 ($805k) Net assets 106 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 114 ($868k) Expenses 119 ($815k) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 117 ($892k) Expenses 98 ($667k) Net assets 161 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 114 ($872k) Expenses 120 ($817k) Net assets 143 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 110 ($836k) Expenses 135 ($920k) Net assets 151 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 115 ($877k) Expenses 144 ($980k) Net assets 165 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 143 ($1.1M) Expenses 149 ($1.0M) Net assets 180 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (143)Expenses (149)Net assets (180)

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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$79k
17
$4k
18
$34k
19
$53k
20
$225k
21
$54k
22
$84k
23
$102k
24
$74k
25
0.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $24k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% 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 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY’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

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.

44%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 100% · 2020 46% · 2021 72% · 2022 41% · 2023 42%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

60% of OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $68k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.

IL
MD
DE

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. $100k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 6 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.

Organizations like OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

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

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 18%Fundraising 10%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: 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 OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY?
OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,314 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($73,330). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $168,314 in grants to OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $73,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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