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Society of Cosmetic Chemists

Our mission: to share scientific information, innovation, and research in the cosmetics and personal care industry through education, events, and publications.

$19k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Health$59kMembership Benefit$32kScience & Tech$19k
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$6,174
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Society of Cosmetic Chemists$7,518
NY Soc of Cosmetic Chemists$6,174
Society of Cosmetic Chemists$5,625
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 (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Society of Cosmetic Chemists: $6k → 17%NY Soc of Cosmetic Chemists: $6k → 4%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.

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 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.

1
American Chemical Society

Exchange of scientific information

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2
Society of Cosmetic Chemists

Our mission: to share scientific information, innovation, and research in the cosmetics and personal care industry through education, events, and publications. by setting high ethical, professional, and educational standards, we improve…

Science & Tech
3
The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh
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4
The Professional School of Cosmetol
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5
The American Society for Aesthetics
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6
American Chemical Society

Chemical education, research & public understanding of chemistry

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7
Philadelphia Society for Coatings Technology

To promote research and development in the manufacture and use of paints, lacquers, and related products while providing educational activities and interchange of ideas among members. improve products, eliminate wasteful methods of…

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8
American Chemical Society

Promotion of chemical sciences

Science & Tech
9
American Chemical Society

Service to members

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10
Marine Chemists' Association Inc
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11
Association for Chemoreception Sciences

A scientific research organization dedicated to understanding the chemical senses of smell, taste, trigeminal irritation and internal chemoreception from the fundamentals of neurobiology to complex behavior.

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12
American Chemical Society Division of Chemical

Provide education to members of the acs

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of Cosmetic Chemists Ct Chapter and the most unlike its peers is New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Society of Cosmetic Chemists-SE Chapter — $11,625 · OtherSociety of Cosmetic Chemists-SE ChapterSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS TC — $8,100 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS TCSociety of Cosmetic Chemists California Chapter Inc — $7,518 · OtherSociety of Cosmetic Chemists California Chapter IncSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS — $6,900 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTSSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS — $6,800 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTSMICHIGAN CHAPTER — $6,500 · OtherMICHIGAN CHAPTERSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS IMWC — $6,300 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS IMWCSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS CT CHAPTER — $6,200 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS CT CHAPTERSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS OHIO VALLEY CHAPTER — $5,913 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS OHIO VALLEY CHAPTERSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS — $5,800 · OtherSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTSSouthwest Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists — $5,400 · OtherSouthwest Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic ChemistsNEW YORK SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS INC — $18,774 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY OF…Society of Cosmetic Chemists Midwest Chapter — $8,400 · Science & TechSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC — $5,500 · Education
Other$77,056Health$18,774Science & Tech$8,400Education$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS INC — $18,774 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSociety of Cosmetic Chemists-SE Chapter — $11,625 over 2y, 51% of budgetSociety of Cosmetic Chemists Midwest Chapter — $8,400 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS TC — $8,100 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSociety of Cosmetic Chemists California Chapter Inc — $7,518 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS — $6,800 over 1y, 12% of budgetSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS IMWC — $6,300 over 1y, 10% of budgetSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS CT CHAPTER — $6,200 over 1y, 22% of budgetSOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC — $5,500 over 1y, 29% of budgetSouthwest Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists — $5,400 over 1y, 40% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Society of Cosmetic Chemists 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%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $10k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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