Funding search · EIN 636022420 · Seattle, WA

American Dialect Society

Name: American Dialect Society grants, 2020–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

6
grants reported: $97,960
total given: 2020–2025
filing years: $15,980
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2020–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Grant history

All 6 reported grants, largest first.

$20,000
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2025
work on Linguistic Atlas Project
$19,750
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2022
Work on Linguistic Atlas Project
$16,385
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2024
work on Linguistic Atlas Project
$15,575
University of Georgia · Athens, GA · 2020
$15,000
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2023
Work on Linguistic Atlas Project
$11,250
University of Kentucky · Lexington, KY · 2020

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.