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The American Ceramic Society Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

The American Ceramic Society Inc

To foster the study, understanding, development, and application of ceramics, glasses, and related materials for the benefit of our members, industry, and the global society.

$142k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$204kScience & Tech$93kEnvironment$7k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $25,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $142,480 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $116,680 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$9,300
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS$11,000
GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL$9,300
SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS$5,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CONRAD WEISER SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $24k → 11%KEYSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 13%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $20k → 11%SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $6k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE: $7k → 17%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $6k → 7%GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $23k → 5%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS (NSBE): $13k → 9%BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS (SHPE): $6k → 14%GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $20k → 5%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS: $11k → 9%ALBRIGHT COLLEGE IYOG EDUCATOR FORUM AT MS&T: $8k → 11%SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $6k → 14%GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $18k → 5%GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $15k → 5%GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $9k → 5%GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $8k → 5%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 45% of The American Ceramic Society Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 6%.

The American Ceramic Society Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$164k · 4 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$164k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 & TechOther
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

  • AC
    ALBRIGHT COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $32k · revenue +27%
  • NS
    National Society of Black Engineers
    2× · 2021–2024 · $24k · revenue +16%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
    3× · 2021–2024 · $17k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +78%
  • PS
    PENN STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • KC
    KEYSTONE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -38%
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
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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2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
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
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
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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8
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
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers

SPIE is an international nonprofit technical society dedicated to advancing scientific research and engineering applications of optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through its meetings, education programs and…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone College; the most unlike its peers is Albright College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $91,800 · OtherGLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCILPENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherKEYSTONE COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO: $9,974 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $9,090 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKAGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES: $7,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $6,662 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · Other+2 moreALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $31,500 · EducationALBRIGHT COLLEGEUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONSOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $16,500 · EducationSOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESS…COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $5,620 · EducationCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FO…BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 · PhilanthropyBERKS COUNTY C…National Society of Black Engineers: $23,800 · Science & Tech
Other$167,026Education$73,620Philanthropy$39,000Science & Tech$23,800

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 budgetGLASS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY COUNCIL: $91,800 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $31,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Society of Black Engineers: $23,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES FOUNDATION: $5,620 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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 The American Ceramic Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The American Ceramic Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    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.

    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 16 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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