How much does American Physical Society give?

American Physical Society reported 37 itemized grants totaling $1,749,882, out of $4,159,382 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does American Physical Society fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Science & Tech (23%), Recreation & Sports (4%).

Who are American Physical Society's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Maryland College Park ($700k), Wested ($482k), Florida International University Foundation Inc ($427k).

Does American Physical Society fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Physical Society?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Folds of Honor Foundation, American Chemical Society, National Collegiate Athletic Association.

Where is American Physical Society based?

American Physical Society is based in MD.

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American Physical Society

The AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY is an educational and scientific organization whose objective is to advance physics by fostering a vibrant, inclusive, and global community dedicated to science and society. Aps is a membership association which publishes physics journals, conducts scientific meetings, and engages in educational, public…

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 37
Itemized grants FY2024: 37
Organizations funded FY2023: 51%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $1.7M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $24,517
Largest grant, FY2024: $222,817
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 37; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 24
Total assets, FY2024: $313M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 51% of the organizations American Physical Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $659k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationScience & TechCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$1.6M	53%
FY2023	37	$2.1M	51%
FY2022	11	$340k	64%
FY2021	28	$1.4M	46%
FY2020	35	$1.6M	86%
FY2019	14	$199k	86%
FY2018	18	$609k	39%
FY2017	15	$711k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.0MScience & Tech$2.1MRecreation & Sports$327kArts & Culture$312kYouth Development$96kPublic Benefit$59kHealth$43kCommunity Improvement$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Maryland College Park	$699,813	7	n/a
Wested	$482,277	4	n/a
Florida International University Foundation Inc	$427,093	3	1%
Hope College	$355,491	2	0%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$309,407	1	0%
Rowan University	$308,146	2	n/a
University of Central Florida	$287,427	6	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$272,713	4	0%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$257,800	3	0%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$207,841	5	n/a

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All grantees of American Physical Society by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Maryland College Park	$699,813	7	n/a
Wested	$482,277	4	n/a
Florida International University Foundation Inc	$427,093	3	1%
Hope College	$355,491	2	0%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$309,407	1	0%
Rowan University	$308,146	2	n/a
University of Central Florida	$287,427	6	n/a
Trustees of Boston University	$272,713	4	0%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute	$257,800	3	0%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$207,841	5	n/a
American Geophysical Union	$206,242	3	0%
American Mathematical Society	$195,167	1	0%
Carleton College	$176,246	2	0%
Clemson University	$173,428	2	n/a
University of Wisconsin	$167,448	2	n/a
Texas A&M University-Commerce	$155,260	1	n/a
Materials Research Society	$141,557	2	1%
Florida International University	$140,769	2	n/a
Colorado School of Mines	$124,829	1	n/a
American Astronomical Society	$123,661	2	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$115,756	2	n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University	$112,776	3	0%
University of California Santa Barbara	$112,276	3	n/a
Florida State University	$99,087	2	n/a
Trustees of Tufts College	$96,132	2	0%
Wiki Education Foundation	$94,735	2	2%
West Virginia University Research Corporation	$92,347	3	0%
University of Wisconsin Madison	$89,381	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Riverside	$71,000	2	n/a
Rochester Institute of Technology	$69,749	3	0%
Oregon State University	$63,504	2	n/a
University of Northern Colorado	$63,302	1	n/a
American Institute of Physics Inc	$62,416	2	0%
California State University Fresno Foundation	$62,338	2	0%
State University of Iowa	$58,726	2	n/a
The Ohio State University	$56,593	3	n/a
Associated Students Inc of California State University San Marcos	$55,376	2	2%
Yale University	$51,989	1	n/a
Government of the District of Columbia	$45,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$42,722	2	n/a
Cornell University	$40,857	2	0%
University of San Diego	$40,767	1	0%
American Chemical Society	$40,500	2	0%
Davidson College	$37,331	1	0%
University of Rochester	$36,727	2	0%
Kansas Athletics Inc	$35,372	3	n/a
Clemson University	$33,372	1	n/a
Trustees of Boston College	$31,929	1	0%
University of Washington	$31,613	2	n/a
Montana State University	$31,500	1	n/a
California Institute of Technology	$30,000	1	0%
New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology	$27,688	1	n/a
University of Massachusetts	$27,186	2	n/a
American Association of Physics Teachers Inc	$27,049	2	0%
Washington State University	$26,087	1	n/a
Alumni Association of St Marys College of Maryland Inc	$25,515	1	n/a
California State University San Marcos Corporation	$25,132	1	0%
University Enterprises Corporation at Csusb	$25,000	1	0%
University of Chicago	$23,523	1	0%
Rutgers the State University	$22,925	1	n/a
The Florida State University Foundation Inc	$22,880	1	0%
University of Oregon	$22,500	1	n/a
Wayne State University	$20,500	1	n/a
Northwestern University	$20,058	2	0%
University of Utah	$20,012	1	n/a
American Association for the Advancement of Science	$20,000	2	0%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$18,099	1	0%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$17,655	2	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$16,863	1	n/a
Auburn University	$16,697	1	n/a
Lewis University	$16,616	1	0%
University of North Georgia	$16,490	1	n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri	$16,266	1	n/a
Georgia Tech Research Corporation	$15,957	1	0%
Sodexo	$15,226	1	n/a
University of California Davis	$15,000	1	n/a
University of Arizona	$14,845	1	n/a
University of Houston	$14,364	2	n/a
Texas Christian University	$14,186	1	0%
Nmc Inc	$14,143	2	n/a
Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy	$13,650	1	0%
Board of Regents of the University of California (Merced)	$12,178	1	n/a
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$11,296	1	n/a
Arizona State University	$10,692	1	n/a
New York University	$10,000	1	0%
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$10,000	1	n/a
University of Cincinnati	$10,000	1	n/a
Committee of Concerned Scientists Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
University of Minnesota	$9,502	1	n/a
University of Denver	$9,470	1	0%
University of Alaska	$8,896	1	n/a
Weber State University	$8,400	1	n/a
Drew University	$8,400	1	0%
Marietta College	$8,400	1	0%
Regents of the University of Minnesota	$7,385	1	n/a
Boise State University	$7,184	1	n/a
Board of the University of Alabama	$7,000	1	n/a
Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School (President and Fellows of Harva	$6,000	1	n/a
Pomona College	$6,000	1	0%
Harvey Mudd College	$6,000	1	0%
Amherst College Trustees	$6,000	1	0%
New Mexico State University	$5,666	1	n/a
Appalachian State University	$5,007	1	n/a

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Physical Society supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 44.

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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.

Folds of Honor FoundationOK22.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · American Chemical Society · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · Tulsa Community Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · American Council of Learned Societies · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc · University of Delaware

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.

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About American Physical Society

How much does American Physical Society give?: American Physical Society reported 37 itemized grants totaling $1,749,882, out of $4,159,382 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Physical Society fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (67%), Science & Tech (23%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are American Physical Society's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Maryland College Park ($700k), Wested ($482k), Florida International University Foundation Inc ($427k).
Does American Physical Society fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 51% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Physical Society?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Folds of Honor Foundation, American Chemical Society, National Collegiate Athletic Association.
Where is American Physical Society based?: American Physical Society is based in MD.