· Public charity
American Bureau of Shipping
To serve the public interest as well as the needs of our members and clients by promoting the safety of life and property and preserving the natural environment through the development and verification of standards for design, construction and operational maintenance of ships and marine related facilities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $1,031,273 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,396,144 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $364,871 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $876k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Texas A&M University | $100,000 |
| University of Michigan | $100,000 |
| United Way | $66,273 |
| Maine Maritime Academy | $60,000 |
| Webb Institute | $60,000 |
| SUNY Maritime College | $60,000 |
| Massachusetts Maritime Academy | $60,000 |
| Virginia Tech Foundation Inc | $60,000 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $60,000 |
| University of Houston | $50,000 |
| Prairie View A & M University | $50,000 |
| Stevens Institute of Technology | $50,000 |
| Vanderbilt University | $50,000 |
| Colorado School of Mines | $50,000 |
| University of New Orleans | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $335k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $328k to organizations and $7k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Scholarships · 2024 - ABS Bursary Award - Student Scholarship
Stated purpose: Scholarships
Stated purpose: Scholarships
Stated purpose: Scholarships
Stated purpose: Scholarships
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN8× · 2017–2024 · $627k · revenue +17%- CMCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $581k · revenue +339%
- MMMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- TATexas A&M Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +48%
- NCNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $251k · revenue +337%
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +97%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maritime Industry Museum At Fort Schulyer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEBB INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MARITIME INDUSTRY MUSEUM AT FORT SCHULYER ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Aetna Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Bureau of Shipping funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.