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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
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 2024.

Education$8.6MPhilanthropy$286kArts & Culture$251kPublic Benefit$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$50k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $1,031,273, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,396,144 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $364,871 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $876k
$50,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Michigan$100,000
Texas A&M University$100,000
United Way$66,273
Webb Institute$60,000
Massachusetts Maritime Academy$60,000
SUNY Maritime College$60,000
Virginia Tech Foundation Inc$60,000
Maine Maritime Academy$60,000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$60,000
Vanderbilt University$50,000
University of Houston$50,000
Stevens Institute of Technology$50,000
Colorado School of Mines$50,000
Prairie View A & M University$50,000
University of New Orleans$40,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Red Cross: $50k → 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

ME
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX

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.

East Asia and the Pacific$188k · 56% · 16 grants · 3 people

Stated purpose: Scholarships · 2024 - ABS Bursary Award - Student Scholarship

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$87k · 26% · 7 grants

Stated purpose: Scholarships

Sub-Saharan Africa$24k · 7% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: Scholarships

North America (Canada and Mexico)$20k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Scholarships

South Asia$16k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Scholarships

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 16 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
5

Total granted

$5.3M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+97%

Still filing today

81%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $627k · revenue +17%
  • CM
    CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $581k · revenue +339%
  • MM
    Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $431k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue +48%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $251k · revenue +337%
  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +97%
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Furman University

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.

Education
5
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

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…

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Texas a&M Research Foundation

To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.

Education
9
University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association Inc

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…

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10
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
11
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas A&M Foundation: $2,500,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $627,183 · EducationALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $581,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCWEBB INSTITUTE: $432,000 · EducationWEBB INSTITUTEMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $430,500 · EducationMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation IncMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $430,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $400,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYTHE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $375,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $320,800 · Education+4 more: $490,000 · Education+4 moreTexas A&M University: $561,000 · OtherTexas A&M Unive…MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $431,000 · OtherMAINE MARITIME …TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherTEXAS A&M UNIVE…US Merchant Marine Academy: $93,500 · OtherUS Merchant Mar…ALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherPRAIRIE VIEW A&M UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherMARITIME INDUSTRY MUSEUM AT FORT SCHULYER: $431,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $251,040 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $213,731 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $156,713 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $170,500 · HealthCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Public BenefitAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human Services
Education$6,586,483Other$1,285,500Arts & Culture$682,040Philanthropy$370,444Health$170,500Public Benefit$100,000Human Services$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $627,183 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $581,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetWEBB INSTITUTE: $432,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMARITIME INDUSTRY MUSEUM AT FORT SCHULYER: $431,000 over 8y, 59% of budgetMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $430,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $430,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $400,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $320,800 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $251,040 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $213,731 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $170,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University: $165,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $156,713 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe George Washington University: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA A&M UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

  • 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …Aetna Foundation IncIbm International Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 American Bureau of Shipping funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Bureau of Shipping. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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