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The Actuarial Foundation

THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION, a 501(c)(3) organization, is a philanthropic partner of the actuarial professionin the united states.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$810k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$1.8MCommunity Improvement$98kHealth$32kSocial Science$8kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $971,031 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,233,880 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $262,849 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $98k
  • $250k+1 grant · $810k
$98,223
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$810,200
SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$98,223
CASUALTY ACTUARIAL SOCIETY TRUST$32,245
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC$30,363
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN: $3k → 13%SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $810k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO: $5k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA BARBARA: $4k → 14%ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $3k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS: $8k → 14%RICE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $4k → 13%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE: $3k → 15%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 10%ADDISON MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - ANN ARBOR: $3k → 14%FERRIS STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $2k → 17%MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $5k → 10%ACHIEVEMENT FIRST HARTFORD ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $9k → 11%GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $2k → 13%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $5k → 19%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 4%ROBERGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $5k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%CASUALTY ACTUARIAL SOCIETY TRUST: $32k → 7%LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN: $2k → 13%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $2k → 17%HOUSTON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FDN: $21k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-ANN ARBOR: $2k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $4k → 10%DEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - URBANA CHAMPAIGN: $3k → 19%SOCIETY OF ACTUARIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $98k → 14%HARLEM ACADEMY: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC: $30k → 17%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 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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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
4
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Southwestern Ohio 4-H Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsIndependent K-8 SchoolsUnited Way FederationsPublic University Foundatio…Public School District Foun…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%51%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%81%55yr+

The field is 22% 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%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

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

33 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. 33 of the 65 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
28/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLASTIC INC — $646,500 · OtherSCHOLASTIC INCAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC — $32,245 · OtherCASUALTY ACTUARIAL SOCIETY TRUST — $30,363 · Other+33 more — $186,996 · Other+33 moreSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $810,200 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC+24 more — $73,344 · Education+24 moreSOCIETY OF ACTUARIES — $98,223 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $4,952 · Philanthropy
Other$896,104Education$883,544Community Improvement$118,223Philanthropy$24,952

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC — $32,245 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHouston Independent School District Foundation — $20,535 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONSORTIUM OF FLORIDA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PUERTO RICO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $4,952 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER VALE EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $4,844 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST HARTFORD ACADEMY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY — $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEPAUL UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociated Students Inc California Polytechnic State Univ San Luis Obispo — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INC — $500 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Folds of Honor Founda…National Collegiate A…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Folds of Honor FoundationOK18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Folds of Honor Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Actuarial Foundation 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 65 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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