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THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC

THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,391,217 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($6,120,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
40
Grants received
$8.4M
Net assets
$8.2M
23/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What The American Austrian Foundation Inc does

Mission

Provide qualified individuals with fellowships to pursue postgraduate education in medicine, media and the arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Salzburg medical seminars - medical education seminars to educate austrian, eastern european, african, mexican and american physicians.

    $1,699,999 spentof which $910,000 as grants
    89% of program spending

  2. Young curators exchange - directors from leading us and austrian museums select a young curator from their respective institution to spend up to a month in austria and the u.s., respectively.

    $194,807 spent
    10% of program spending

  3. Aaf/faber fellowship for young conductors - fellowship for u.s. Conductors to attend the salzburg festival observing the world's leading conductors and artists at work during rehearsals and performances.

    $6,407 spent
    0% of program spending

  4. Medical internship program / observerships

    $2,860 spent
    0% of program spending

  5. Max kade clinical clerkships

    $2,160 spent
    0% of program spending

  6. Max kade fellowships

    $712 spent
    0% of program spending

  7. Milton wolf seminar for media & diplomacy - seminar for journalists, students of diplomacy and international relations from the u.s., central and eastern europe and the former soviet union to examine the connections between diplomacy and journalism analyzing key legal, political and ethical issues.

    $401 spent
    0% of program spending

  8. Aaf/seebacher prize for fine arts - prize to provide opportunity for u.s. Fine arts graduate students and recent graduates to study at the international summer academy of fine arts salzburg.

    $8,400 spent
    0% of program spending

  9. Schloss arenberg capital campaign

    $318 spent
    0% of program spending

  10. Satellite symposia - two day symposia hosted by international faculty in their country with the aim of reaching a larger audience of physicians and health care workers, while providing opportunity to learn about local conditions.

    $76 spent
    0% of program spending

The 10 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,916,140.

02The 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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2018 Revenue 154 ($3.3M) Expenses 96 ($2.1M) Net assets 131 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 135 ($2.9M) Expenses 124 ($2.7M) Net assets 143 ($4.9M)2020 Revenue 189 ($4.0M) Expenses 69 ($1.5M) Net assets 221 ($7.6M)2021 Revenue 128 ($2.7M) Expenses 72 ($1.5M) Net assets 256 ($8.8M)2022 Revenue 133 ($2.9M) Expenses 102 ($2.2M) Net assets 251 ($8.7M)2023 Revenue 196 ($4.2M) Expenses 172 ($3.7M) Net assets 271 ($9.3M)2024 Revenue 58 ($1.2M) Expenses 112 ($2.4M) Net assets 237 ($8.2M)
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Revenue (58)Expenses (112)Net assets (237)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $6.1M to $9.3M (+53%).

$4.1M
$5.0M
$6.1M
$9.3M
$10M
$9.6M
$11M
$9.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
$1.2M
’18
$207k
’19
$2.6M
’20
$1.2M
’21
$657k
’22
$491k
’23
−$1.2M
’24
10
months of
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

Mrs Katharine Eltz - Aulitzky

Executive director

Board chair

Mr Thomas J Mcgrath

Chairman & trustee

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2626252525262624
Joined·+3+0+0+0+1+1+0
No longer listed·3100012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $110k → $1.7M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Cornell Universityunclassified
$100k
funders
7
10
14
16
14
16
18
18
6

7 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

73%
largest funder
80%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 25% · 2019 20% · 2020 70% · 2021 88% · 2022 81% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

89% of THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

WA
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
KY
MD
DE
DC
TX
FL

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

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’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC

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 New York

American Australian Association81%American Friends of the Art Fund78%American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia Inc77%American Friends of Bucerius Inc77%Anu Foundation USA77%American Friends of Israel Emergency Aid Fund77%Academy of General Dentistry Foundation76%The American Federation of Arts Inc76%

Nationally

Australian International Screen Foundation Inc82%American Australian Association81%American Academy of Family Physicians la County Chapter80%Australian Universities & Schools USA Foundation Inc80%American Academy of Audiology Foundation79%Academy of Medicine Education Foundation78%Art for Healing Foundation78%American Friends of the Art Fund78%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 15%Fundraising 0%

Governance

24
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC?
THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,391,217 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY ($6,120,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $8,391,217 in grants to THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC?
FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $6,120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 40 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