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American Chemical Society
The AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY is a federally chartered organization whose mission is to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of earth and its people.
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 341 grants below total $22,367,674 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,036,138 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,668,464 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
- Under $10k46 grants · $319k
- $10k–50k167 grants · $4.2M
- $50k–250k117 grants · $14M
- $250k+11 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $504,691 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $501,413 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNIV OF ILLINOIS | $425,090 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA | $416,144 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY | $411,084 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $344,357 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $344,033 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $341,856 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $319,799 |
| STATE OF MARYLAND | $260,445 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SANTA BARBARA | $253,090 |
| GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORP | $236,871 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM | $233,861 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $229,749 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $224,926 |
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 (FY18–23, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
415 repeat relationships — 299 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down; 31 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k 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
- TRThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +62%
- WMWilliam Marsh Rice University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +104%
- GTGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69%
Funded once
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +29%- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $375k
- MTMichigan Tech Universityone grant, 2019 · $220k
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
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…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Peter's University and the most unlike its peers is American Chemical Society Midland. 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.
Your grantees are a median of 72 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
343 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. 343 of the 604 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
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: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Writing Project Corporation · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · American Council of Learned Societies · World Learning Inc · National Academy of Sciences
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 Chemical Society 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 — 26% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
- Delaware State University — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 11% of income from government
- Yale University — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 0% of income from government
- University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.
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