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American Psychological Foundation

The AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION provides financial support for innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychologyto elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$1.1MSocial Science$998kEducation$845kHealth$446kReligion$25kCivil Rights$20kYouth Development$12kEnvironment$2k
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 38 grants below total $1,065,719 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,459,554 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $393,835 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $706k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $354k
$20,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN$224,890
APF ACCESS LLC$128,875
PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC$34,000
COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD DBA ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY$30,545
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$29,497
YALE UNIVERSITY$28,000
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$25,000
THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$25,000
TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY$22,500
EMORY UNIVERSITY ATTN EPEX 63905$22,440
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$22,332
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$22,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$22,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $22k → 8%THE AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER: $20k → 12%CARLETON COLLEGE: $25k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 22%ALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $47k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $29k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO: $20k → 21%NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 23%UNIVERISTY OF ARKANSAS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $22k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $20k → 11%PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $22k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $28k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $24k → 14%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 15%ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $20k → 8%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $30k → 7%THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $32k → 8%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY: $22k → 21%COALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD DBA ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY: $31k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 22%PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC: $34k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $21k → 11%UCLA UC REGENTS: $35k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $24k → 11%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%THE RECTOR AND VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $22k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN: $225k → 14%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 7%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $200k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $168k → 14%THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: $20k → 14%APF ACCESS LLC: $129k → 14%NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE: $20k → 17%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $124k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $116k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $60k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $45k → 14%AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $39k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 24 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
54

Total granted

$1.9M
$800k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+48%

Still filing today

46%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $558k 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
EducationHealthSocial ScienceScience & TechRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • AP
    AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $654k · revenue +11%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $324k · revenue +288%
  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2018–2024 · $64k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +51%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FAYETTEVILLE
    one grant, 2019 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
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
4
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
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Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is Psychotherapy Action Network. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Senior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%65%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%78%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/104
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,461

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.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
54/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

APF ACCESS LLC — $128,875 · OtherAPF ACCESS LLCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE — $67,684 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $66,730 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $57,092 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $57,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $56,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $49,930 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $48,402 · OtherIndiana University School of Medicine — $46,000 · Other+44 more — $765,864 · Other+44 moreAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $654,168 · Social ScienceAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATI…AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $324,224 · Social ScienceAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIO…Fairleigh Dickinson University — $75,000 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson Univers…Emory University — $64,040 · EducationEmory UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY — $48,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYYale University — $47,622 · EducationYale UniversityALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $43,510 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $40,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $39,000 · EducationPALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC — $34,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $31,928 · EducationCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD — $30,545 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $30,000 · Education+21 more — $323,201 · Education+21 moreRhode Island Hospital — $39,879 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $29,497 · HealthAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC — $20,000 · HealthRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC — $20,000 · HealthHartford Hospital — $17,916 · HealthTHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $15,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $15,000 · HealthGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $15,000 · HealthMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital — $15,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation — $10,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $10,000 · HealthEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $6,000 · HealthNorthwestern University — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $17,900 · Science & TechMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $5,200 · Science & TechWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,344,377Social Science$978,392Education$851,846Health$223,292Recreation & Sports$25,000Science & Tech$23,100Crime & Legal$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — $654,168 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $324,224 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $64,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $47,622 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $43,510 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $39,879 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $39,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chicago School - California Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC — $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $31,928 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD — $30,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $29,497 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $24,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $22,663 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $19,978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $19,970 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $17,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital — $17,916 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $17,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVA UNIVERSITY — $16,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $14,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $11,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmma Pendleton Bradley Hospital — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY TRAINING CONSORTIUM — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Foundation f…American Chemical Soc…Northeastern Universi…Northwestern Universi…Washington UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…National Collegiate A…Johns Hopkins Univers…Alzheimer's Disease &…National Academy of S…Drexel UniversityTrustees of Boston Un…
American Foundation for Suicide PreventionNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention · American Chemical Society · Northeastern University · Northwestern University · Washington University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Johns Hopkins University · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · National Academy of Sciences · Drexel University · Trustees of Boston University

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 Psychological Foundation 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory — 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Pacific University — 2% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Austen Riggs Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to American Psychological Foundation?

Find your warmest path to American Psychological Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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