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American Institutes for Research
This is a placeholder profile. For more on this organization, see American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR).
At-A-Glance
Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3)
Issue Areas: Economic Policy, Healthcare Policy, Education Policy
Location: Washington, DC View on map
Tax ID: 25-0965219
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $1,058,621,770 Revenue: $437,187,471 Expenses: $403,775,054
This is a placeholder profile. For more on this organization, see American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences (AIR).
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Employee Compensation
- Number of Employees: 1875
Highest Earning Employees
| Employee | Title | Total Compensation |
|---|---|---|
| David Myers | CEO (END 02/24)/ BD & CMTE MEMBER | $1,634,366 |
| Jessica Heppen President | (ALL OF 2024) & CEO (AS OF 03/24) | $953,106 |
| Marijo Ahlgrimm Treas Exec VP | & CFO (END 07/24), SEE SCH J | $914,364 |
| Lawrence B Trapuzzano | VP, PROGRAM FINANCE (END 12/24) | $521,993 |
| Pamela Keefe | TREAS., SR VP & CFO (AS OF 04/24) | $450,835 |
| Timothy B Hill | SR VICE PRESIDENT, HEALTH DIVISON | $448,622 |
| Michael Garet | VP & INSTITUTE FELLOW | $441,126 |
| Lawrence B Friedman | VP, HUMAN SERVICES DIVISION | $437,528 |
| David S Seidenfeld | SR VP, INTERNATIONAL DIVISION | $431,918 |
| Makini Nyanteh | CCO AND SR VP – COMMUNICATIONS | $430,798 |
| Julie R Kochanek | SR VP, HUMAN SERVICES | $422,869 |
| Catherine E Livingston | SEC., CHIEF LEGAL OFFC (AS OF 02/24) | $416,418 |
| Lesley A Sepanloo | SR VP, HUMAN RES & WORKPLACE MGMT | $403,160 |
| Mai Hubbard | VP, HEALTH | $400,313 |
| Dona Kilpatrick | SEC., GENERAL COUNSEL (END 07/24) | $385,144 |
| Donald Lindsey | CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER | $371,076 |
| Joseph Wagner | VP, CONTRACTS, GRANTS & PROCUREMENT | $337,577 |
| Lawrence Bobo | BD & CMTE MEMBER, BD CHAIR | $125,000 |
| Kathy McKinless | BD & CMTE MBR, BD CMTE CHAIR | $92,000 |
| Sol Pelavin Bd Cmte Mbr | BD & CMTE CHAIR, FMR PRES | $92,000 |
| Nancy Cantor Brechin | BD & CMTE MEMBER, CMTE CHAIR | $92,000 |
| Kimberly Pattillo Brownson | BD & CMTE MEMBER, BD CMTE CHAIR | $92,000 |
| Alicia Karam Harkness | BD, CMTE MEMBER & BD CMTE CHAIR | $92,000 |
| Andrew Liakopoulos | BD & CMTE MEMBER, BD CMTE CHAIR | $90,000 |
| Manuel Pastor | BD & CMTE MEMBER | $83,000 |
| Michael Stoll | BD & CMTE MEMBER | $76,250 |
| Mayra E Alvarez | BD & CMTE MEMBER | $74,000 |
| Edward Hamburg | BD & CMTE MBR, BD CMTE CHAIR | $70,000 |
| Robert F Boruch | BD & CMTE MEMBER (END 12/24) | $67,250 |
| Robert Ross | BD & CMTE MEMBER (AS OF 06/24) | $45,208 |
Grant Activity
All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $277,601,897
- Number of Grants: 530
- Number of Funders: 114
Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $10,336,000 | 2025 | Ascendium Education Group, Inc. | This grant supports the American Institutes for Research in fortifying a comprehensive foundation of technical assistance resources and providers for the field of postsecondary education in prison. This infrastructure will provide colleges the support they need in order to design, implement, and continuously improve postsecondary degree programs tailored to incarcerated students. |
| $6,500,000 | 2020 | United States Agency for International Development | The lac reads capacity programs works to increase the availability and use of evidence about what works in teaching and learning of reading so that more children in latin america and the caribbean learn to read. |
| $4,949,189 | 2020 | Gates Foundation | to surface insights that can become “playbooks” for institutions of higher education to use in efficiently scaling interventions to support student success |
| $4,796,340 | 2020 | Gates Foundation | to support an organization that runs a network of middle schools to identify and solve common problems using evidence-based interventions to improve student achievement |
| $4,685,300 | 2024 | Ascendium Education Group, Inc. | This grant supports American Institutes for Research in launching an initiative focused on significantly growing the availability of high-quality best practice guidance for postsecondary education in prison programs. By leveraging the expertise of longstanding programs and supporting them in refining and sharing best practices, the initiative will establish quality standards and generate new resources for the broader field as it grows in response to the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated learners. |
| $4,490,644 | 2022 | Gates Foundation | to support an organization that runs a network of middle schools to identify and solve common problems using evidence-based interventions to improve student achievement |
| $3,314,433 | 2023 | Gates Foundation | To address research questions related to teacher characteristics, math course-taking, and Algebra 1 preparation, passage, and proficiency in California, Florida, and Texas. |
| $3,274,500 | 2024 | Ascendium Education Solutions Inc | Grant, Assessing Quality and Equitable Access and Outcomes of Distance Postsecondary Courses for the Incarcerated Grant, Rural Research Support Partner Grant, Advancing Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Pathways via Next-Generation Outcomes Research & Data Grant, Identifying and Scaling Programmatic Technical Assistance in Postsecondary Education in Prison Programs |
| $2,949,600 | 2024 | Ascendium Education Group, Inc. | This grant supports American Institutes for Research in evaluating the impact of competency-based education programs – degree programs designed around self-paced demonstration of specific competencies or skills – on learners’ completion outcomes and labor market success. |
| $2,686,571 | 2022 | Gates Foundation | to evaluate and learn from the solution network investments |
| $2,678,004 | 2020 | Gates Foundation | to support research on the ways in which COVID-19 has and will continue to impact K-12 education |
| $1,830,000 | 2023 | Gates Foundation | to improve the availability of comparable learning data at the beginning and end of primary school. |
| $1,597,802 | 2020 | The Wallace Foundation | To support a study of how a range of districts from across the state of Texas incorporate evidence-based strategies in the design and implementation of summer learning programs. |
| $1,371,443 | 2024 | Gates Foundation | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION |
| $1,272,423 | 2022 | Gates Foundation | To support a formative capability assessment for network intermediaries supporting postsecondary institutional networks to improve student outcomes |
| $1,250,000 | 2025 | Overdeck Family Foundation Inc | To support an externally-conducted RCT that will estimate the impact of TalkingPoints on children's attendance and academic achievement in PreK and elementary school |
| $1,205,965 | 2022 | The Duke Endowment | To evaluate and build evidence for the Summer Literacy Initiative program model in 2023 and 2024. |
| $1,040,000 | 2024 | Gates Foundation | K-12 EDUCATION |
| $994,400 | 2023 | Ascendium Education Solutions Inc | Designing a Postsecondary Education in Prison RFP Initiative Rural Research Support Partner Strengthening the Postsecondary Education in Prison Field Through High-Impact Technical Assistance |
| $870,015 | 2022 | TIDES FOUNDATION | EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT |
| $754,933 | 2020 | Gates Foundation | to develop rigorous evidence on the impact of Digital Green’s FarmStack interventions on farmer-level outcomes in productivity and income on two use cases of wheat and dairy |
| $724,170 | 2024 | The Duke Endowment | To evaluate and build evidence for the Rural Church Summer Literacy Initiative program model. |
| $678,669 | 2024 | Gates Foundation | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION |
| $675,000 | 2023 | Lumina Foundation for Education Inc | To research institutional change efforts that support adult learner participation |
| $648,525 | 2022 | Ascendium Education Solutions Inc | Grant, Rural Research Support Partner Grant, Advancing Outcomes Research on Postsecondary Competency-Based Education Pathways Grant, Assessing Quality and Equitable Access and Outcomes of Distance Postsecondary Courses for the Incarcerated |
All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:
- Total Grant Value: $17,005,735
- Number of Grants: 151
- Number of Recipients: 104
Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:
| Amount | Year | Funder | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| $1,753,352 | 2022 | The Center for Policing Equity | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHERANCE OF THEIR MISSION |
| $1,699,068 | 2023 | Institute for American Police Reform Inc | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR FUTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S MISSION TO FOSTER SUSTAINED COLLABORATION AND SHARED OWNERSHIP OF PUBLIC SAFETY |
| $1,303,101 | 2023 | Center for Policing Equity | SUPPORT FOR POLICING EQUITY PROJECT |
| $853,450 | 2022 | Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients | SEE SCHEDULE F, PART V |
| $800,000 | 2022 | Institute for American Police Reform Inc | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHERANCE OF THEIR MISSION |
| $750,000 | 2024 | The Aspen Institute | SUPPORT GRANTEE'S FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM |
| $604,405 | 2024 | Center for Policing Equity | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONENHANCE THE ORGANIZATIONS DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESEARCH CAPACITY, AND TO SUPPORT INITIATIVES IN HARM REDUCTION, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS, AND PUBLIC SAFETY REDESIGN, ALIGNED WITH ITS MISSION TO ADVANCE EQUITY AND JUSTICE |
| $546,270 | 2021 | Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients | SEE SCHEDULE F, PART V |
| $342,500 | 2024 | Georgetown University | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONPROVIDE RESEARCH GRANT TO THE CENTER FOR INNOVATIONS IN COMMUNITY SAFETY OF THE GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER |
| $250,000 | 2024 | Campbell Collaboration | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONGENERAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHERENCE OF GRANTEE'S MISSION OF PROMOTING A POSTIVE SOCIAL AND ECONCOMIC CHANGE THRU THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS AND OTHER EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS OR EVIDENCE BASED POLICY AND PRACTICE. |
| $212,500 | 2023 | Georgetown University | PROVIDE RESEARCH GRANT TO THE CENTER FOR INNOVATIONS IN COMMUNITY SAFETY AT THE GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER |
| $187,712 | 2024 | Urban Institute | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONSUPPORT NEW OR REINVIGORATED TOOLS AND STRATEGIES TO FOSTER SCHOOL INTEGRATION AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY IN PRE-K PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
| $177,750 | 2023 | American Youth Policy Forum | SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPING POLICY ENVIRONMENTS AND EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES RESPONSIVE TO YOUTH NEEDS |
| $176,426 | 2024 | Poverty and Race Research Action Council | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONSUPPORT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RESEARCH-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR SCHOOL INTEGRATION AND IMPROVED K-12 STUDENT EXPERIENCES IN HOSUSING MOBILITY PROGRAMS |
| $172,360 | 2024 | Thinklive!, Inc. | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONSUPPORT FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION SUPPORT OF "TLIVE EDTECH PLATFORM EFFICACY FOR YOUTH'S COPING AND FLOWING WITH STEM " |
| $158,600 | 2024 | Children's Defense Fund | SUPPORT CHILDREN DEFENSE FUND'S STAFF AND 8 YOUTH POLICY CONSULTANTS |
| $155,829 | 2023 | National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform | SUPPORT FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD OPPORTUNITY & ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD |
| $150,000 | 2021 | Campbell Collaboration | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHERANCE OF THEIR MISSION |
| $149,342 | 2024 | American University | FELLOWSHIP GRANT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE |
| $135,718 | 2023 | University of Memphis | SUPPORT PROJECT TO BUILD, DEVELOP & CUSTOMIZE AN INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM INTO PER SCHOLAS' TRAINING PROGRAM |
| $135,477 | 2022 | Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa Recipients | SEE SCHEDULE F, PART V |
| $127,384 | 2024 | NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION | SCHOOL REDISTRICTING AS A TOOL FOR REDUCING SEGREGATION AND FUNDING INEQUALITY |
| $112,500 | 2024 | The NEA Foundation for the Improvement of Education | SEE SCHEDULE I, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATIONGENERAL SUPPORT GRANT FOR THE FOUNDATION'S COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INITIATIVE IN THE AMERICAN DEEP SOUTH |
| $110,000 | 2020 | Campbell Collaboration | SEE SCHEDULE I, PART IV |
| $108,000 | 2022 | American Youth Policy Forum | GENERAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHERANCE OF THEIR MISSION |
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