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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

EIN 52-1945674 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$19,166,512
Expenses 2024
$18,266,961

Program services were 81.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B034
Classification
2000
Street
1818 R ST NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

AAC&U ADVANCES THE DEMOCRATIC PURPOSES OF HIGHER EDUCATION BY PROMOTING EQUITY, INNOVATION, AND EXCELLENCE IN LIBERAL EDUCATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ADVANCE THE VITALITY AND PUBLIC STANDING OF LIBERAL EDUCATION.

  • GRANT FUNDED PROGRAMS TO STUDY, RESEARCH AND ADDRESS COMMON EDUCATIONAL ISSUES AS WELL AS TARGETED AREAS OF CONCERN, IN EFFORTS TO ADVANCE THE BROAD INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL PURPOSES OF LIBERAL EDUCATION.

    Expenses $6,431,289 · Grants $841,279

  • PROGRAMS TO STUDY AND RESEARCH COMMON EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS AND ISSUES, IN EFFORTS TO ADVANCE THE BROAD INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETAL PURPOSES OF LIBERAL EDUCATION.

    Expenses $3,387,885

  • MEETINGS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION WITH ITS MEMBERS REGARDING ISSUES AFFECTING HIGHER EDUCATION. THE ANNUAL MEETING, HELD EACH JANUARY, ATTRACTS OVER 1,300 ATTENDEES. SIX INSTITUTES AND FOUR TOPICAL MEETINGS WERE ALSO HELD.

    Expenses $2,591,428 · Revenue $4,704,037

  • MEMBERSHIP SERVICES RECRUITS NEW MEMBERS, DEVELOPS STRATEGIES TO RETAIN MEMBERS, ASSESSES MEMBER SATISFACTION, ANSWERS MEMBER INQUIRIES, PREPARES MATERIALS CONCERNING MEMBER BENEFITS, AND MAINTAINS MEMBERSHIP RECORDS.

    Expenses $940,403 · Revenue $5,532,136

  • OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES: AAC&U PUBLICATIONS FOCUS ON TEACHING, LEARNING, CURRICULUM, AND ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP. JOURNALS AND OTHER MATERIALS ARE PUBLISHED TO PROVIDE THE MEMBERSHIP WITH INFORMATION ON METHODS OF EDUCATION. EACH ISSUE OF OUR THREE PERIODICALS IS DISTRIBUTED TO APPROXIMATELY 7,000 MEMBERS AND PAID SUBSCRIBERS. WE ALSO HAVE OVER 80 PUBLICATION TITLES AVAILABLE FOR SALE.

    Expenses $444,763 · Revenue $20,074

  • COMMUNICATIONS

    Expenses $1,065,588

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • ADAM BUSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREA CHAPDELAINE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANDREW REHFELD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BRANDON BUSTEED

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHARLES M ROESSEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINA CUTLIP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DARA N BRYNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID WILSON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • EDUARDO OCHOA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FREDERICK LAWRENCE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JESSICA RIDDELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JOHNATHAN ALGER

    VICE CHAIR/CHAIR AS OF JAN 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • JULIUS SOKENU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • L SONG RICHARDSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • LANISA KITCHINER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARCO BARKER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY DANA HINTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MIKE FLORES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PAMELA EDDINGER

    DIRECTOR/VICE CHAIR AS OF JAN 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PATRICIA A MARSHALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RANA SOBH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RANDY WILLIAMS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROSLYN CLARK ARTIS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SANTA ONO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SUZANNE JOHNSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $19,166,512
    Expenses
    $18,266,961
    Contributions
    $8,385,207
    Grants paid
    $841,279
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $15,845,906
    Expenses
    $15,977,635
    Contributions
    $5,158,938
    Grants paid
    $1,090,439
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $15,054,199
    Expenses
    $14,849,607
    Contributions
    $4,684,109
    Grants paid
    $1,400,991

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,552,261
    Expenses
    $12,436,130
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,290,827

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,506,275
    Expenses
    $12,537,292
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,161,995

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $14,718,500
    Expenses
    $13,906,891
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,948,097

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,490,451
    Expenses
    $12,278,478
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,634,223

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $12,406,630
    Expenses
    $12,455,847
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,230,896

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.