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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.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
341
Grants FY2024still arriving
51
States reached
$505k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$121MScience & Tech$11MRecreation & Sports$3.8MHealth$3.4MArts & Culture$1.1MPublic Benefit$933kInternational$216kFood & Nutrition$195kOther$0
02FY2024 · 341 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 341 grants below total $22,367,674, the rows itemized in this filing. The $26,036,138 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,668,464 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

  • Under $10k46 grants · $319k
  • $10k–50k167 grants · $4.2M
  • $50k–250k117 grants · $14M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.1M
$31,252
Median grant
51
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 24%MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 24%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

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127M · 415 repeat orgs$6.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

415
144

Total granted

$127M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

53%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910k 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
EducationScience & TechHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • TR
    The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +62%
  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +104%
  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +29%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $375k
  • MT
    Michigan Tech University
    one grant, 2019 · $220k
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.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
3
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
4
California Lutheran University

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.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Point Park University

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…

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Delaware Valley University

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…

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Western New England University

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…

Education
9
Capital University

Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.

Education
10
La Salle University

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…

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Ashland University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Peter's University; 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.
04the grantee network

343 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. 343 of the 604 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
339/343
Grantees still filing
285/343
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,873,364 · Other+122 more: $76,861,694 · Other+122 moreThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $2,268,018 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The St…William Marsh Rice University: $1,503,218 · Education+66 more: $33,088,317 · Education+66 moreUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $808,583 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $500,000 · Science & TechAmerican Chemical Societys New York Sec: $336,421 · Science & TechINDIANA SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $327,475 · Science & TechGEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND SERVICE FOUNDATIONINC: $186,828 · Science & TechGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $1,215,297 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $257,500 · HealthNorthwestern University: $711,650 · Recreation & SportsBROWN UNIVERSITY: $492,496 · Community Improvement
Other$79,735,058Education$36,859,553Science & Tech$2,159,307Health$1,472,797Recreation & Sports$711,650Community Improvement$492,496

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $2,268,018 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $1,503,218 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $1,215,297 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,208,990 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,172,214 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,147,395 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $1,089,583 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,087,783 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $1,029,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,025,534 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $986,622 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $978,938 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $952,690 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $893,140 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $883,110 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $814,454 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $808,583 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $806,847 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $798,646 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $711,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $707,463 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $689,058 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $685,203 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $679,143 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $670,302 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $664,570 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $655,502 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: $605,935 over 6y, 37% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $602,832 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $596,627 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $594,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $588,161 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $587,937 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $527,098 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $492,496 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $484,696 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $481,495 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $456,214 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ANESTHESIOLOGY ASSOCIATES PA: $443,270 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $424,062 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $416,451 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $391,119 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Chemical Society North Jersey: $389,100 over 5y, 41% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $353,226 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $337,828 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $336,830 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

National Collegiate A…Folds of Honor Founda…Hispanic Scholarship …The Trustees of Colum…National Writing Proj…Howard Hughes Medical…National Collegiate I…Tulsa Community Found…Association of Univer…American Council of L…World Learning IncNational Academy of S…
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN151.8× affinity95 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to American Chemical Society?

Find your warmest path to American Chemical Society through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 604 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home