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American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$21k
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.

Science & Tech$722kEducation$127kEnvironment$117k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $40,851, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,109,967 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,069,116 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 $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
$8,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$136M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NABG$20,936
ORGANIZED UPLIFTING RESOURCES & STRATEGIES$8,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE$6,415
HOLLYGROVE DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$5,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SUMMER OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICAL EXPERIENCE: $20k → 10%NABG: $21k → 16%ORGANIZED UPLIFTING RESOURCES & STRATEGIES: $8k → 17%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $18k → 14%ANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE: $45k → 19%COMMUNITY COLLEGE PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $27k → 8%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 19%THE BOARD TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS: $221k → 19%PUBLIC LABORATORY: $60k → 23%POLARIS INSIGHTS INC: $36k → 8%SAGE: $20k → 10%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $18k → 14%THE BOARD TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS: $192k → 19%PUBLIC LABORATORY: $30k → 23%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $14k → 14%THE BOARD TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY ILLINOIS: $162k → 19%HOLLYGROVE DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $6k → 23%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $14k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $12k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $11k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $6k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $6k → 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

IL
IN
CA
MD
SC
DC
LA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $175k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South Asia$71k · 41% · 69 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$32k · 18% · 11 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$28k · 16% · 20 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

Sub-Saharan Africa$26k · 15% · 17 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$14k · 8% · 14 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

Middle East and North Africa$4k · 2% · 4 people

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

South America$500 · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: TRAVEL AND OTHER GRANT

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$803k · 4 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$803k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-15%
+73%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 & TechPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $574k
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +31%
  • PL
    PUBLIC LABORATORY FOR OPEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $90k · revenue -98% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • AA
    ANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +73%
  • PI
    POLARIS INSIGHTS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $36k
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $27k · revenue -38%
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 11 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
2/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $573,948 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISPOLARIS INSIGHTS INC: $36,000 · OtherPOLARIS INSIGHTS INC+2 more: $28,000 · OtherPUBLIC LABORATORY FOR OPEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INC: $90,000 · EducationPUBLIC LABORATORY…SUMMER OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICAL EXPERIENCE: $40,000 · EducationSUMMER OF APPLIED…NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK GEOSCIENTISTS: $20,936 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIAT…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $99,490 · Science & TechAMERICAN AS…ANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE: $45,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $27,000 · Public BenefitHOLLYGROVE NEIGHBORS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $5,500 · Community Improvement
Other$637,948Education$150,936Science & Tech$99,490Public Safety & Disaster$45,000Public Benefit$27,000Community Improvement$5,500

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 budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $99,490 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC LABORATORY FOR OPEN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INC: $90,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSUMMER OF APPLIED GEOPHYSICAL EXPERIENCE: $40,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS CAMPUS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK GEOSCIENTISTS: $20,936 over 1y, 12% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Geophysical Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Geophysical Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Anthropocene Alliance: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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 11 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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