Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION
THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132,119 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($937,321). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The American Humanist Association does
Mission
We strive to bring about a progressive society where being good without a god is an accepted and respected way to live life. We are accomplishing this through our defense of civil liberties and secular governance, by our outreach to the growing number of people without traditional religious faith, and through a continued refinement and advancement of the humanist worldview.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public awareness: increase public awareness & acceptance of humanism through direct advertising about humanist message, direct mail to non-members, and through our flagship website.
$1,433,963 spentof which $101,311 as grants$420,265 earned by the program76% of program spendingEducation: education of the public and members regarding humanism, through our in-depth exploration of humanism in the humanist magazine, our informative free mind newsletter, and book length on-line resources.
$347,810 spent$27,004 earned by the program19% of program spendingConference: provide opportunities for scholarship through annual conferences presentations on humanist topics, annual journal essays, and books published through humanist press and debates.
$94,181 spent$17,255 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,875,954.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+62%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Fish Stark
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $41k → $154k.
10 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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: $2.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Humanist Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 HUMANIST ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 45% · 2019 62% · 2020 55% · 2021 60% · 2022 50% · 2023 26% — 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
54% of THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
70% of THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION'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 $643k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Humanist Society of Friends · exempt
- The Humanist Foundation · exempt
- The Center for Freethought Equality · exempt
- Institute for Humanist Studies · exempt
- Freethought Equity Fund PAC · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION?
- THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132,119 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($937,321). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,132,119 in grants to THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $937,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN HUMANIST 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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing