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The American Occupational Therapy

Rockville, MD · EIN 13-6189382. Reported 69 grants totalling $3,065,421 to 37 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$48,492median reported grant
$3,065,421granted, 2020-2023
56%of grantees funded again the next year
7%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 56% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $48,492. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $49,999; the smallest was $10,799 and the largest $125,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
12 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
40 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
16 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of Southern CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$224,647332022
The Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH$199,488332022
The Tower Foundation of San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, CA$175,000222022
New York UniversityNew York, NY$149,646332022
Colorado State UniversityFort Collins, CO$149,114332023
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$148,478332023
Syracuse UniversitySyracuse, NY$100,000222021
University of MissouriKansas City, MO$100,000222022
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC$99,998222023
University of Alabama BirminghamBirmingham, AL$99,997332023
Washington University St LouisSt Louis, MO$99,794112020
University of Tennessee Health Science CenterMemphis, TN$99,216222021
Indiana UniversityDetroit, MI$98,430332022
Regents of the University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$98,214222021
Rush University Medical CenterChicago, IL$97,160222023
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity IncCharleston, SC$95,810222023
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research & Education FoundationLos Angeles, CA$94,003222021
University of Texas Medical Branch at GalvestonGalveston, TX$74,999112020
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for ChildrenDallas, TX$63,851222023
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$54,988222023
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterW Hollywood, CA$50,000222022
Creighton UniversityOmaha, NE$50,000112021
Hospital for Special Surgery Fund IncNew York, NY$50,000112023
Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, AZ$50,000222021
Regents of the University of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN$50,000222023
The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisUrbana, IL$50,000112020
University of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$50,000222023
University of FloridaGainesville, FL$49,999112020
Nationwide Childrens Hospital IncColumbus, OH$49,905112020
University of WashingotnSeattle, WA$49,826112020
Cleveland State UniversityCleveland, OH$48,834222023
Towson UniversityTowson, MD$46,476222022
Augusta University Research Institute IncAugusta, GA$45,599112020
Texas Womans UniversityDenton, TX$36,150222023
Washington UniversitySt Louis, MO$30,000112023
Thomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphia, PA$25,000112020
Rehabilitation Institute of ChicagoChicago, IL$10,799112021

25 of 37 (68%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Education
11 orgs
Health Care
7 orgs
Medical Research
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202018$938,966$49,792
202119$977,899$49,458
202218$616,440$25,000
202314$532,116$43,684

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

18% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$544K
New York
$300K
Ohio
$298K
Colorado
$298K
Missouri
$230K
Michigan
$197K
Texas
$175K
Illinois
$158K

Down to the city

Los Angeles, CA
$319K
Columbus, OH
$249K
New York, NY
$200K
San Jose, CA
$175K
Fort Collins, CO
$149K
Denver, CO
$148K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund7 shared recipientsAmerican Heart Association Inc7 shared recipientsWashington University7 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsNational Collegiate Athletic Association6 shared recipientsThe Trustees of Columbia University6 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $48,492 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The American Occupational Therapy's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 12300 Twinbrook Parkway 520, Rockville, MD, 20852.

EIN 13-6189382 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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