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American Society of Plant Biologists

Promote the growth and development of plant biology, to encourage and publish research in plant biology, and to promote the interests and growth of plant scientists in general.

$403k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
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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.

Education$303kScience & Tech$54kRecreation & Sports$38k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $24,033, the rows itemized in this filing. The $402,758 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $378,725 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.
$7,990
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE$8,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA$7,990
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY$7,543
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $7k → 11%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $31k → 11%THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $8k → 14%TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE: $9k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $46k → 27%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $8k → 19%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH: $38k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $44k → 8%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA: $36k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 27%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $45k → 14%DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $29k → 11%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
CA
NE
MO
NC
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $61k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, all to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$21k · 34% · 6 people

Stated purpose: PLANT BIOLOGY 2024 TRAVEL AWARD · SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (SURF) · WOMEN'S YOUNG INVESTIGATOR TRAVEL AWARD

North America (Canada and Mexico)$16k · 26% · 9 people

Stated purpose: PLANT BIOLOGY 2024 TRAVEL AWARD · SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (SURF) · WOMEN'S YOUNG INVESTIGATOR TRAVEL AWARD

East Asia and the Pacific$14k · 22% · 12 people

Stated purpose: PLANT BIOLOGY 2024 TRAVEL AWARD · CHARLES REID BARNES LIFE MEMBERSHIP AWARD · DENNIS HOAGLAND AWARD

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$9k · 15% · 10 people

Stated purpose: PLANT BIOLOGY 2024 TRAVEL AWARD · WOMEN'S YOUNG INVESTIGATOR TRAVEL AWARD

South Asia$2k · 3% · 3 people

Stated purpose: PLANT BIOLOGY 2024 TRAVEL AWARD · NSF GRANT-CONFERENCE: PLANT SCHOLARS PROGRAM (CPSP) PLANT SCIENCE SATURDAY STIPENDS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 18 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)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $46,325 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEYNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $44,156 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $38,149 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINUNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA: $35,919 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIAREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE: $31,402 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDEUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $19,925 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY: $17,548 · OtherIOWA STATE UNIVERSITYEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $14,534 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY+3 more: $23,420 · Other+3 moreLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $45,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF …WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $9,965 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $7,543 · EducationThe Research Foundati…CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $6,970 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Georgia…DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $29,364 · Science & TechDONALD DANFORT…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $20,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN ASSOC…
Other$271,378Education$74,478Science & Tech$49,364

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $29,364 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $9,965 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $7,543 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $6,970 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $5,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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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    Find your warmest path to American Society of Plant Biologists 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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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