· Public charity
Aci Foundation
To receive, adminster, and expend funds for educational, research, scientific, and charitable purposes.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k22 grants · $526k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $89,000 |
| CHARLES PANKOW FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN | $43,125 |
| TEXAS A&M ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION | $43,125 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $43,125 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $43,125 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY | $43,125 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $28,865 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $28,750 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $28,750 |
| WISS JANNEY ELSTNER ASSOCIATES INC | $26,450 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON | $25,500 |
| NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $14,375 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $129k on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions, $72k to organizations and $57k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH · SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP · TRAVEL EXPENSES
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP · TRAVEL EXPENSES
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education4× · 2020–2025 · $101k · revenue +14%
- ACAMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +11%
- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York2× · 2023–2024 · $59k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $50k
- RUREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2020 · $38k
- CFCPI FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $28k · revenue +71%
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.
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.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHARLES PANKOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONCRETE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL READY MIXED CONCRETE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Chemical Society · Folds of Honor Foundation · Johns Hopkins University
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aci Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aci Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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