· Public charity
American Mathematical Society
Please see schedule o.the AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY ("ams or "the society") founded in 1888 to further the interests of mathematical research scholarship, and education, serves the national and international mathematical community through its publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs, which: (a) promote mathematical…
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 15 grants below total $262,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $916,599 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $654,099 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MATHEMATICAL STAIRCASE INC | $22,000 |
| NEW YORK MATH CIRCLE | $15,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE | $13,000 |
| SIGMACAMP INC | $12,000 |
| GRADUATE STUDENT CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| PZ MATH CORPORATION | $8,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| RECINTO UNIVERSITARIO DE MAYAGUEZ | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of American Mathematical Society’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2023 · $114k · revenue +45%- TATHE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $108k · revenue +248%
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE7× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $93k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $93k · revenue +33%- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONone grant, 2022 · $54k
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
We are an intl. scientific & educational org. dedicated to advancing art, science & technology.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Education and Research
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the International Mathematical Union. 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 54 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 — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 66 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.
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ART OF PROBLEM SOLVING INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MATHEMATICAL STAIRCASE ↗
- Who funds MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Friends of the International Mathematical Union ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Harvey Mudd College ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds MATHEMATICS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROMYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYLVIA BOZEMAN AND RHONDA HUGHES EDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MathPath ↗
- Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MATH CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds SIGMACAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NumFOCUS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF CHICANOS AND NATIVE AMERICANS IN SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ITHAKA HARBORS INC ↗
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: Carina Initiatives Inc · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · The Simons Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
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 Mathematical 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- American Institute of Physics 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.