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Board of Certified Safety Professionals

The BOARD OF CERTIFIED SAFETY PROFESSIONALS inspires and develops leaders in safety, health, and environmental practice through globally accredited certification; enhancing careers, advancing the profession, protecting people.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$3.6MEducation$448kEmployment$21kScience & Tech$10k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $127,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $268,496 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,496 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.
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIV$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI$12,000
COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
PURDUE UNIVERSITY AT WEST LAFAYETTE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$10,000
WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$10,000
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY$10,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA$10,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MONTANA TECH: $21k → 16%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $6k → 16%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIV: $20k → 12%GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%BCSP FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 16%PURDUE UNIVERSITY AT WEST LAFAYETTE: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $10k → 16%FAIRMONT STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO: $6k → 14%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIV FOUNDATION: $6k → 20%WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 18%MURRAY STATE UNIV FOUNDATION: $12k → 19%MONTANA TECH: $10k → 16%EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIV: $15k → 12%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $11k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MO: $17k → 14%BCSP FOUNDATION: $734k → 16%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SAFETY ENGINEERS FOUNDATION: $21k → 14%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI: $15k → 14%BCSP FOUNDATION: $636k → 16%ASSP FOUNDATION: $12k → 14%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI: $12k → 14%BCSP FOUNDATION: $597k → 16%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%BCSP FOUNDATION: $207k → 16%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%BCSP FOUNDATION: $204k → 16%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%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

MT
IL
MI
IN
OH
PA
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
OK
LA
AL
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 8 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$3.9M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+88%

Still filing today

75%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

  • AI
    AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +98%
  • AE
    AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $55k · revenue +66%
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Central Missouri Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +88%
  • MT
    MONTANA TECH
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MO
    one grant, 2017 · $17k
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.

1
Missouri Southern Foundation

To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.

Education
2
Foundation of the Association of Energy Engineers

The foundation of aee was formed for the purpose of awarding scholarships to furhter education in the energy engineering field. scholarships are awarded to undergraduate degree candidates who are enrolled in engineering or management…

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3
Athens State University Foundation

The Foundation promotes the University to the surrounding community, works to build a strong alumni group, and helps secure funding for scholarships.

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4
American College of Surgeons Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to support the charitable and educational work of the acs.

Education
5
American Society of Civil Engineers Foundation Inc

The foundation provides support for civil engineering programs that enhance quality of life for all, promote the profession, advance technical practices, and prepare civil engineers for tomorrow. the support is most often, but not limited…

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6
Association of American Universities Inc

Founded in 1900, aau is composed of 71 distinguished institutions in the united states and canada that continually advance society through education, research, and discovery. our u.s. member universities earn the majority of competitively…

Education
7
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
8
Austin Peay State University Foundation

The foundation provides scholarships, awards, and monies for other apsu educational purposes.

Education
9
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Foundation

The siue foundation exists to support the mission, vision, and values of southern illinois university edwardsville. on behalf of the university, the foundation provides fundraising coordination and implementation, serves as the steward for…

Education
10
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
11
University Foundation
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12
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Missouri Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bcsp Foundation Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BCSP FOUNDATION INC: $3,648,617 · OtherBCSP FOUNDATION INC+18 more: $301,000 · Other+18 moreAMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $35,000 · EducationMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 · EducationUniversity of Central Missouri Foundation: $25,000 · EducationSOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Education
Other$3,949,617Education$178,000

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 budgetBCSP FOUNDATION INC: $3,648,617 over 6y, 87% of budgetAMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetAGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society of Safety Professionals Foundation: $33,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Central Missouri Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 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.

  • Who funds BCSP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AGC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds American Society of Safety Professionals Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Central Missouri Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Bcsp Foundation IncIN20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bcsp Foundation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Board of Certified Safety Professionals funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Board of Certified Safety Professionals. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Board of Certified Safety Professionals 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 24 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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