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· Public charity

Foundation for Chemistry Research and Initiatives

Advancing the understanding, safe use, and positive impact of chemistry to society.to accomplish the mission, the foundation will support the following goals:1.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$182k
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.

Environment$3.1MEducation$727kScience & Tech$340kHealth$255kPhilanthropy$145kHuman Services$100kInternational$75kYouth Development$24k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $554,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,596,378 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,042,278 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $479k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOXSTRATEGIES LLC$182,100
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS$87,000
SUMMIT STRATEGY GROUP LLC$85,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$75,000
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
SERVE YOUR CITY$35,000
LAKIND ASSOCIATES LLC$20,000
CHEMICAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE$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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS: $100k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
OR
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.0M · 100% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: ADVANCING RESPIRATORY TRACT CELL CULTURE NAM MODELS FOR RISK-BASED DECISION-MAKING · DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR MICRO- AND NANOPLASTICS SAMPLING AND EXTRACTION FROM SOIL (SAMPLEX). · ASSESSING MICROPLASTIC DEPOSITION IN SEDIMENT CORES FROM A CONTIGUOUS WATER SYSTEM (MICRODETECT)

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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$1.5M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-27%

Still filing today

63%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $277k 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
EducationScience & TechInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +19%
  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • HA
    HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE
    2× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TR
    TOTAL RECYCLE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1.5M
  • HC
    HARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
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
Council for Higher Education Accreditation

The council is dedicated to serving students and their families, colleges and universities, sponsoring bodies, governments and employers by promoting academic quality through formal recognition of higher education accrediting bodies and…

Education
2
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners

Founded in 1889, the national association of regulatory utility commisioners (naruc) is a non-profit organization dedicated to representing the state public service commisions who regulate the utilities that provide essential services such…

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3
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
4
University Professional and Continuing Education Association

University professional and continuing education association (upcea) advances leadership in professional, continuing and online education. the association is dedicated to meeting the needs of professional members and the institutions they…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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7
National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships Inc

Advancing a national community to foster equity in dual and concurrent enrollment through accreditation, advocacy, research, and professional development.

Education
8
Uc Berkeley Center for Executive Education

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education
9
American College Health Association

The american college health association (acha) serves as the principal leadership organization for advancing the health of college students and campus communities through advocacy, education, and research.

Health
10
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
11
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…

Arts & Culture
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Institute of Chemical Engineers; the most unlike its peers is Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment. 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

12 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. 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOTAL RECYCLE INC: $1,500,000 · OtherTOTAL RECYCLE INCHARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT: $1,000,000 · OtherHARRIS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURTLAKIND ASSOCIATES LLC: $300,000 · OtherLAKIND ASSOCIATES LLCIBEX PARTNERS LLC: $250,000 · OtherIBEX PARTNERS LLCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $200,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $198,000 · OtherTOXSTRATEGIES LLC: $182,100 · Other+8 more: $306,600 · Other+8 moreUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $350,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationHAWAII PAC…Community College Partners Program: $40,000 · EducationCommunity …SERVE YOUR CITY: $168,962 · PhilanthropyNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $100,000 · Human ServicesWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · InternationalHEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Science & TechTOXICOLOGY EXCELLENCE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT: $30,000 · Science & TechConference for the Model Aquatic Health Code: $25,000 · Health
Other$3,936,700Education$440,000Philanthropy$168,962Human Services$100,000International$75,000Science & Tech$70,000Health$25,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $198,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSERVE YOUR CITY: $168,962 over 5y, 13% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity College Partners Program: $40,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTOXICOLOGY EXCELLENCE FOR RISK ASSESSMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetConference for the Model Aquatic Health Code: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLouisiana Resource Center for Educators: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChemical Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA2.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Foundation for Chemistry Research and Initiatives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Chemistry Research and Initiatives. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 Foundation for Chemistry Research and Initiatives 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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