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The American Society for Cell Biology

To lead a diverse, global and multidisciplinary scientific community focused on the cell, the basic unit of all life.

$315k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
9
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2017–2021.

Science & Tech$275kHealth$200kEducation$188kPublic Benefit$149k
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $266,342 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $315,110 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,768 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $261k
$20,738
Median grant
9
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC$41,000
SCIENCE MOAB$40,376
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$35,000
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
STEM ADVOCACY INSITUTE$35,000
HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY$20,738
THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CSU NORTHRIDGE$17,583
DUKE UNIVERSITY$13,407
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE$11,938
SCIENCE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL$10,800
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$5,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCIENCE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL: $32k → 8%STEM ADVOCACY INSITUTE: $35k → 16%WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 6%UC REGENTS: $31k → 11%UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS THE YOUNG SCIENTISTS PROGRAM: $32k → 16%MERCY COLLEGE: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $24k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY: $5k → 17%HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE CUNY: $5k → 28%BARRY UNIVERSITY INC: $5k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $35k → 14%YALE UNIVERSITY: $14k → 12%MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $5k → 14%LANE COLLEGE: $5k → 15%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $34k → 8%CLAYTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 15%ALBANY STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 28%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $30k → 9%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $16k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE: $35k → 10%AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $12k → 8%AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: $28k → 11%SCIENCE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL: $11k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CSU NORTHRIDGE: $18k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $6k → 14%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $33k → 10%AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $12k → 8%THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CSU NORTHRIDGE: $9k → 14%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $21k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE: $12k → 10%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$341k · 7 repeat orgs$416k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$341k
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHealthScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2021 · $74k · revenue +73%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $66k · revenue +6%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
    one grant, 2020 · $34k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK MEDICAL GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meharry Medical College and the most unlike its peers is Lane College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 63 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%62%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%1%35–55yr16%53%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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/31
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,534

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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $65,930 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $56,974 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE — $47,254 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEG…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $35,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $33,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO — $33,396 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TOLEDOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $31,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $30,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS — $16,226 · Other+4 more — $21,032 · Other+4 moreHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $74,465 · EducationHIGH POINT UNIVERSITYSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $40,376 · EducationSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVESTEM ADVOCACY INSTITUTE AKA CIVIC SCIENCE MEDIA LAB — $35,000 · EducationSTEM ADVOCACY INSTITUTE AKA CIVIC SCIE…WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $29,867 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERYale University — $13,670 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $13,407 · Education+6 more — $31,105 · Education+6 moreMAYO CLINIC — $41,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK MEDICAL GROUP INC — $32,979 · HealthTHE UNIVERSIT…American Physiological Society — $24,155 · HealthAmerican Phys…SCIENCE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL INC — $42,800 · Science & TechSCIENCE C…AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY — $28,019 · Science & TechAMERICAN …
Other$370,312Education$272,890Health$98,134Science & Tech$70,819

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 budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $74,465 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION — $65,930 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEM ADVOCACY INSTITUTE AKA CIVIC SCIENCE MEDIA LAB — $35,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetWEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT HEALTH NETWORK MEDICAL GROUP INC — $32,979 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $29,867 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY — $28,019 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Physiological Society — $24,155 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $13,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $13,407 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION — $6,105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY UNIVERSITY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANE COLLEGE — $5,000 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.

National Collegiate A…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · 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 American Society for Cell Biology 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • American Physical Society — 1% of income from government
  • Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 31 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 2021, released 2021. 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 $94k 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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