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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
24
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$1.1MSocial Science$998kEducation$845kHealth$446kReligion$25kCivil Rights$20kYouth Development$12kEnvironment$2k
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 50 grants below total $1,573,003, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,102,350 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $529,347 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $739k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $496k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$20,000
Median grant
24
States reached
$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE DBA KENNEDY FORUM$275,000
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN$108,293
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN$106,493
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSN$86,588
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$74,878
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY$60,000
SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH$59,994
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$45,000
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$40,000
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY$34,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$34,000
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY$31,248
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$28,400
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$26,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$24,500
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAM & DEVORAH FOUNDATION FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTH: $60k → 4%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

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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 32 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
68

Total granted

$2.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+36%

Still filing today

47%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $812k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHealthSocial ScienceScience & TechHuman ServicesRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AP
    AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $956k · revenue +11%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $324k · revenue +47%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AA
    APF ACCESS LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $129k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue +51%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
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
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

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
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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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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

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
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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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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
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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
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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; 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.
04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 128 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

APF ACCESS LLC: $128,875 · OtherAPF ACCESS LLCREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $81,300 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $75,230 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $70,902 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $67,684 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $64,000 · Other+62 more: $1,294,317 · Other+62 moreAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $955,542 · Social ScienceAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC…AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $324,224 · Social ScienceAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUND…Yale University: $91,522 · EducationYale UniversityFairleigh Dickinson University: $90,000 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson Universi…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $74,878 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYEmory University: $64,040 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $63,510 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $48,988 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $48,000 · EducationOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $46,563 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $45,000 · EducationALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $43,928 · Education+27 more: $536,083 · Education+27 moreMENTAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC: $275,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALT…Rhode Island Hospital: $59,417 · HealthRhode Island…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $43,500 · HealthVanderbilt U…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $29,497 · HealthChildren's H…RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $20,000 · HealthAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC: $20,000 · Health+8 more: $103,916 · Health+8 moreNorthwestern University: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth: $59,994 · Human ServicesUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $17,900 · Science & TechMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $5,200 · Science & TechWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,782,308Social Science$1,279,766Education$1,257,512Health$551,330Recreation & Sports$65,000Human Services$59,994Science & Tech$23,100Crime & Legal$15,000

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 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: $955,542 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $324,224 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetYale University: $91,522 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $74,878 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $64,040 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $63,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth: $59,994 over 1y, 12% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $59,417 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $48,988 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $46,563 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $43,928 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $43,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $37,992 over 2y, 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 budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE COMMON GOOD: $30,545 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $29,497 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $26,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $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 budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $14,600 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 128 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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