· Public charity
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
To saves lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 70 grants below total $7,190,959 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,304,295 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,113,336 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $658k
- $50k–250k38 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRADLEY HOSPITAL-YOVANSKA DUARTE-VELEZ | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE-ADOLFO SEQUEIRA | $500,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY-BERNADETTE MAZUREK MELNYK | $499,638 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGENE INC-NOAM SCHNECK | $499,558 |
| THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY-SHERRY MOLOCK | $498,346 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL-CRISTINA CUSIN MD | $446,137 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI-IGOR GALYNKER | $250,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY-HILARY BLUMBERG | $250,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HEALTH FOUNDATION-ANNA RADIN | $249,979 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS-JANNA PATTERSON | $249,572 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION-HELEN PIONTKIVSKA | $200,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK-KATHERINE SHEAR | $112,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-NADINE MELHEM | $112,500 |
| CHOP RESEARCH INSTITUTE-RAN BARZILAY | $78,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH-KATHERINE SUPIANO | $74,987 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your 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 — $1.1M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
Stated purpose: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
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.
61 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 10 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH7× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +40%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +110%- RFRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- SUState University of Iowaone grant, 2020 · $1.5M
- HHHartford Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2017 · $465k
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.
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Education and Research
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 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 — 0.9% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 116 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.
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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: Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association Inc · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation · The George Washington University · Brown University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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 Foundation for Suicide Prevention 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.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
- Portland Va Research Foundation — 34% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Pacific University — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Sheppard Pratt Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
- Austen Riggs Center Inc — 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.