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Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc

To advance science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s.

$53k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Science & Tech$158kEducation$136kCommunity Improvement$14kHuman Services$14k
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $37,145, the rows itemized in this filing. The $53,110 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,965 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
$8,125
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCS FOUNDATION INC COLORADO CHAPTER$23,850
ARCS FOUNDATION INC ILLINOIS CHAPTER$8,125
ARCS FOUNDATION INC PHOENIX$5,170
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARCS FOUNDAITON INC ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $14k → 14%ARCS FOUNDATION INC ILLINOIS CHAPTER: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
OR
PA
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
HI
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$196k · 7 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$196k
$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-1%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20
EducationHuman ServicesScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AR
    ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +144%
  • AR
    ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $22k · revenue +24%
  • AF
    ARCS Foundation Inc Illinois Chapter
    2× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • AF
    ARCS FOUNDAITON INC TAMPA BAY CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $14k
  • AF
    ARCS FOUNDATION INC UTAH CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -28%
  • AR
    ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC MINNESOTA CHAPTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +137%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc

To advance science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
2
National Student Achievement Awards
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3
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation
Philanthropy
4
American Chemical Society

Exchange of scientific information

—
5
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

—
6
Riggs Student Scholarship Fund
Philanthropy
7
Alpha Mu Tau Fraternity

Scholarships multiple scholarships provided to individuals in undergraduate and graduate clinical lab science curriculum

—
8
Archangel Scholarship Foundation

Scholarships awarded to St. Michael's Students

Education
9
American Chemical Society

Chemical education, research & public understanding of chemistry

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10
Psi Lambda Educational Foundation
Education
11
American Chemical Society De Section

Continuing education in science

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12
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achievement Rewards for College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter; the most unlike its peers is Arcs Foundation Inc Utah Chapter. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Colorado: $36,850 · EducationAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc ColoradoACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC: $29,570 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INCACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC: $24,037 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INCACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTER: $22,450 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTERARCS FOUNDATION INC UTAH CHAPTER: $14,140 · EducationARCS FOUNDATION INC UTAH CHAPTERACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC MINNESOTA CHAPTER: $14,140 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC MINNESOTA CHAPTERAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Oregon Chapter: $14,135 · EducationAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Oregon ChapterACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER: $14,135 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTERAchievement Rewards For College Scientists Foundation Inc LA Chapter: $14,135 · EducationAchievement Rewards For College Scientists Foundation Inc LA ChapterAchievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter: $14,135 · EducationAchievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County C…ARCS FOUNDATION INC ATLANTA CHAPTER: $14,135 · EducationARCS FOUNDATION INC ATLANTA CHAPTERACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC NO CA CHAP: $40,325 · OtherACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR…ARCS FOUNDAITON INC TAMPA BAY CHAPTER: $14,140 · OtherARCS FOUNDAITON INC TAM…ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUN INC HONOLULU CHAP: $13,000 · OtherACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR…ARCS Foundation Inc Illinois Chapter: $22,260 · Human ServicesAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc MWC: $20,985 · Science & Tech
Education$211,862Other$67,465Human Services$22,260Science & Tech$20,985

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC NO CA CHAP: $40,325 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Colorado: $36,850 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC: $29,570 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC SD CHAPTER: $22,450 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetARCS Foundation Inc Illinois Chapter: $22,260 over 2y, 22% of budgetAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc MWC: $20,985 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetAchievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc Oregon Chapter: $14,135 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER: $14,135 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAchievement Rewards For College Scientists Foundation Inc LA Chapter: $14,135 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAchievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter: $14,135 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetARCS FOUNDATION INC ATLANTA CHAPTER: $14,135 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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