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American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession; develop and support civil engineer leaders; and advocate infrastructure and environmental…

$998k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $357,772 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $998,231 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $640,459 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 $10k23 grants · $164k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $194k
$8,775
Median grant
10
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASCE TEXAS SECTION$34,360
ASCE FLORIDA SECTION$24,796
ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION$24,206
ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION$19,839
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA$15,322
ASCE NEW JERSEY SECTION$14,998
ASCE METROPOLITAN SECTION$14,375
ASCE COLORADO SECTION$12,518
BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS$12,101
CLARKSON UNIVERSITY$11,000
ASCE ILLINOIS SECTION$10,158
ASCE NATIONAL CAPITAL SECTION$9,811
ASCE VIRGINIA SECTION$9,345
ASCE SEATTLE SECTION$9,189
ASCE NORTH CAROLINA SECTION$8,899
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 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION: $21k → 10%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $40k → 10%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $25k → 14%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $100k → 12%ASCE FOUNDATION: $536k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $61k → 10%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $29k → 10%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $39k → 10%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $80k → 12%ASCE FOUNDATION: $121k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $61k → 10%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $28k → 10%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $34k → 10%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $80k → 12%ASCE FOUNDATION: $81k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA: $46k → 10%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $24k → 10%engineers without borders: $50k → 12%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $45k → 6%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $50k → 12%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $44k → 6%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $50k → 12%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $44k → 6%ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS: $50k → 12%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $44k → 6%ASCE TEXAS SECTION: $41k → 6%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $34k → 6%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $34k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $34k → 6%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $34k → 6%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $34k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $33k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $33k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $32k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $30k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $30k → 6%ASCE LOS ANGELES SECTION: $30k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $29k → 6%ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION: $26k → 6%ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION: $26k → 6%ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION: $25k → 6%ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION: $25k → 6%ASCE FLORIDA SECTION: $25k → 6%ASCE COLORADO SECTION: $24k → 6%ASCE METROPOLITAN SECTION: $22k → 6%ASCE METROPOLITAN SECTION: $22k → 6%ASCE SAN FRANCISCO SECTION: $22k → 6%ASCE METROPOLITAN SECTION: $21k → 6%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.8M · 42 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
4

Total granted

$4.8M
$36k

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
Science & TechEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther

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

  • EW
    ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $460k · revenue +49%
  • AS
    American Society of Civil Engineers-Texas Section
    8× · 2017–2024 · $331k · revenue +46%
  • AS
    American Society of Civil Engineers Florida Section
    8× · 2017–2024 · $246k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE
    one grant, 2021 · $13k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • SD
    SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $8k

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.

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American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
2
Associated Schools of Construction

ASC is a professional association for the development and advancement of construction education where the sharing of ideas and knowledge inspires guides and promotes excellence in curricula teaching research and service.

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3
National Society of Professional Engineers

To foster licensed professional engineers in service to society.

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4
American Council of Engineering Companies of California

To strengthen California's engineering and surveying business to build a better California.

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5
American Council of Engineering Companies of Kentucky Inc

To keep engineers abreast of all issues facing the industry through publications and seminars

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6
American Society of Plumbing Engineers New York City Chapter

The society disseminates technical data and information, sponsors activities that facilitate interaction with fellow professionals and, through research and education, expands the base of knowledge of the plumbing engineering industry.…

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7
American Chemical Society

Leading and supporting innovation in cellulose & renewable materials by providing a forum for our members to excel in the chemical sciences and technology

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8
American Chemical Society

Exchange of scientific information

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9
Engineers Society of Western Pa

The purpose of this organization is to provide facilities for the social and professional benefit of its members; to advance the professions of engineering, architecture and applied services through technical, scientific and social…

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10
Society of Women Engineers

The society's mission is to stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of…

Community Improvement
11
American Society of Nepalese Engineers

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Science & Tech
12
American Council of Engineering Companies of Illinois

Mission statement: the purpose of acec-il is to assist members in achieving higher professional, business and economic standards, thus enabling them to provide better consulting engineering services to their clients.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society of Civil Engineers New Jersey Section and the most unlike its peers is Clarkson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr15%87%35–55yr15%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr15%86%35–55yr15%2%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,420

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

39 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. 39 of the 49 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
32/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS FOUNDATION INC — $737,963 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS FOUNDATION INCAmerican Society of Civil Engineers Florida Section — $246,488 · OtherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers Florida SectionAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS LA SECTION — $246,148 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS LA SECTIONAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO SECTION — $185,845 · OtherASCE METROPOLITAN SECTION — $153,358 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS New Jersey Section — $150,562 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Colorado Section — $133,813 · Other+33 more — $1,737,271 · Other+33 moreAmerican Society of Civil Engineers-Texas Section — $331,162 · Science & TechAmerican Socie…BOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION/ASCE — $129,250 · Science & TechBOSTON SOCIETY…AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS National Capital Section — $110,503 · Science & TechAMERICAN SOCIE…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $38,500 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADE…AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Philadelphia Section — $23,029 · Science & TechENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $460,000 · InternationalENGINEERS …University of Nevada Reno Foundation — $183,930 · EducationCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $11,000 · EducationTHE WATER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Environment
Other$3,591,448Science & Tech$632,444International$460,000Education$194,930Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS FOUNDATION INC — $737,963 over 3y, 13% of budgetENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS-USAINC — $460,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Society of Civil Engineers-Texas Section — $331,162 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetAmerican Society of Civil Engineers Florida Section — $246,488 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS LA SECTION — $246,148 over 8y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SAN FRANCISCO SECTION — $185,845 over 8y, 19% of budgetUniversity of Nevada Reno Foundation — $183,930 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS New Jersey Section — $150,562 over 8y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Colorado Section — $133,813 over 8y, 20% of budgetBOSTON SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS SECTION/ASCE — $129,250 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Illinois Section — $110,907 over 8y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS National Capital Section — $110,503 over 8y, 18% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Virginia Section — $98,008 over 8y, 19% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS North Carolina Section — $92,772 over 8y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Georgia Section — $86,620 over 8y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Seattle Section — $86,243 over 8y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Sacramento Section — $79,137 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetMICHIGAN SECTION OF ASCE — $78,355 over 8y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Tennessee Section — $78,180 over 8y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Louisiana Section — $74,566 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Oregon Section — $71,949 over 8y, 16% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Arizona Section — $70,758 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Nevada Section — $67,545 over 6y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Wisconsin Section — $66,604 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS INDIANA SECTION — $66,392 over 8y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS South Carolina Section — $60,849 over 8y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS - MD — $57,449 over 6y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Pittsburgh Section — $53,790 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Alabama Section — $51,063 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS St Louis Section — $49,568 over 8y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Connecticut Section — $45,122 over 7y, 10% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS MINNESOTA SECTION — $44,456 over 7y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Kansas City Section — $42,122 over 7y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS Philadelphia Section — $23,029 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetTHE WATER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Soc Civil Engr SD Section — $19,797 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $11,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA0.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Society of Civil Engineers Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 49 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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