Nonprofit
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,029,325 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,431,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared funders
- Mahoney Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- Come to Believe Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $675k → $77k.
11 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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: $5.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The American University of Paris Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS’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
THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% 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
96% 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 UNIVERSITY OF PARIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 98% · 2019 85% · 2020 47% · 2021 87% · 2022 24% · 2023 51% — 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
45% of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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.
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.
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Mahoney Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Come to Believe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tuw John McKee Dtd 1281899 Archbishop Nelson J Perez Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winncompanies Charitable Scholarship Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles Andportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilbur E Postles Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pat Tillman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard E and Christine Shiflerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gerard Jakobi Tr 4174 FBO Northernportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret Patricia Eagan Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jackson Scholarship George Tuwportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
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.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- American University of Paris Foundation · exempt
- Sci Seguin Universities · partnership
- Aup Housing · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS?
- THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,029,325 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,431,500). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $3,029,325 in grants to THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,431,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 19funders 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