AUSTIN AREA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2000

Street

114 W 7TH ST STE 800

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 · 2025

• PROGRAM 1 - COMMITTEE / MEMBERSHIP PROVIDED INFORMATION ON CRITICAL ISSUES IN 6 PRIORITY AREAS: EDUCATION, HEALTH, SOCIAL EQUITY, TRANSPORTATION, VISION (REGIONALISM) AND WATER BY HOSTING PROGRAMS FEATURING CONTENT EXPERTS AND PROVIDING WRITTEN MATERIALS TO MEMBERS. THIS INCLUDED FOUR MEMBERSHIP MEETINGS AND MORE THAN 50 ISSUE-RELATED MEETINGS IN WHICH MEMBERS WERE FORTIFIED WITH FACTS TO ALLOW THEM TO UNDERSTAND COMPLEX ISSUES AND EDUCATE OTHERS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES ABOUT CRITICAL POLICY ISSUES FACING THE REGION.

  Expenses $255,179 · Revenue $21,500

• PROGRAM 2 - CATALYST SUMMIT HOSTED THE THIRD ANNUAL CENTRAL TEXAS CATALYST SUMMIT. A PREMIER, BY-INVITATION-ONLY EVENT THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER 150 LEADERS FROM THE SIX-COUNTY REGION WHO ARE ENGAGED IN ADDRESSING POLICY CHALLENGES IMPACTING BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT AND NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE REGION. A FULL DAY EVENT FACILITATING DISCUSSIONS TOPICS THAT THREAD THROUGH THE MOST PRESSING OF THESE CHALLENGES, FROM HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND WATER SECURITY TO EVOLVING THE K- 12 TO WORKFORCE READINESS PIPELINE IN AN EVER EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT. ATTENDEES PARTICIPATED IN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS, HEARD FROM THOUGHT PROVOKING SPEAKERS AND NETWORKED TO EXPLORE THE INTERDEPENDENCIES OF SUBJECT MATTER AND COMMUNITIES AND HOW TO MOVE THE NEEDLE FORWARD FOR OUR REGION.

  Expenses $153,108 · Revenue $169,690

• PROGRAM 3 - MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE COMPLETED A REVIEW OF BOTH THE MEMBERSHIP STRUCTURE AND MEMBER ENGAGEMENT MODEL. LEVERAGING A 2024 MEMBER SURVEY, 2025 STEERING COMMITTEE AND MEMBER INTERVIEWS, BCG CONDUCTED AN 8-WEEK SPRINT TO EVALUATE AAROS FINANCIAL STABILITY, BENCHMARK AGAINST OTHER ORGANIZATIONS NATIONALLY AND ARTICULATE MEMBER ROI, INCLUDING AN ANALYSIS OF 2024 SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS DATA TO PRIORITIES OF RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT CENTRAL TEXAS AS A COMPARATIVE TO AAROS 2024 SURVEY OF CIVIC, BUSINESS AND PUBLIC LEADERS ACROSS THE SUPER-REGION. RESULTING RECOMMENDATIONS INCLUDED REDUCING THE COMPLEXITY OF MEMBERSHIP TIERS TO THREE, SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCING THE NUMBER OF REGULAR MEETINGS TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION WHILE REDUCING THE TIME BURDEN OF MEMBERSHIP, AND TARGETING NEW MEMBERS ACROSS REGIONALLY KEY, BUT UNDER-REPRESENTED IN MEMBERSHIP, INDUSTRIES.

  Expenses $102,071

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $923,814

  Expenses

  $881,154

  Contributions

  $704,778

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $894,857

  Expenses

  $853,841

  Contributions

  $743,433

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $946,021

  Expenses

  $937,955

  Contributions

  $806,412

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $730,804

  Expenses

  $879,620

  Contributions

  $681,614

  Grants paid

  $200,020

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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $970,434

  Expenses

  $621,502

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,183,579

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $791,702

  Expenses

  $560,534

  Assets (EOY)

  $816,966

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $654,475

  Expenses

  $654,331

  Assets (EOY)

  $570,466

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $645,557

  Expenses

  $655,577

  Assets (EOY)

  $459,613

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $566,753

  Expenses

  $634,648

  Assets (EOY)

  $524,262

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $658,535

  Expenses

  $547,268

  Assets (EOY)

  $566,091

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $579,559

  Expenses

  $503,368

  Assets (EOY)

  $518,681

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.

Grants made

• UNITED WAY OF GREATER AUSTIN

  $101,929

  2022 · THE GRANT IS TO SUPPORT ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PERMANENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL ADMINISTER THE CENTRAL TEXAS - ADDRESSING CANCER TOGETHER (CTX-ACT) BREAST CANCER PROJECT WHICH AARO, LED BY THE AARO HEALTH COMMITTEE, WAS ACTIVE IN FORMULATING, INCUBATING AND LAUNCHING.

• COMMUNITY ACTION INC OF CENTRAL TEXAS

  $96,772

  2022 · THE GRANT IS IN SUPPORT OF COMMUNITY ACTION INC. EXPANSION OF THEIR TEXAS BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER SERVICES (BCCS) PROGRAM, SPECIFICALLY THROUGH THE SCREENING, DIAGNOSIS AND ENROLLMENT OF WOMEN FOR THE EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER IN BASTROP, HAYS, AND WILLIAMSON COUNTIES, AND POTENTIALLY OTHER COUNTIES THROUGH OCTOBER 31, 2022.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $74,852

  2022 · FOR CONSULTING WORK ON THE ADDRESSING CANCER TOGETHER INITIATIVE THROUGH THE AARO HEALTH COMMITTEE.

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $63,850

  2023 · FUND DISTRIBUTION

• AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $30,550

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• ASCENSION SETON

  $17,000

  2022 · To support Austin area research

• ASCENSION SETON

  $14,000

  2023 · 2024 AARO Tier A Membership

• YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

  $5,950

  2024 · ASSISTANCE

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