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Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter

Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,173 to it, the largest being Laguna Beach Community Foundation ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$211k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$1.6M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter does

Mission

The arcs foundation is dedicated to helping meet our country's need for scientists and engineers by providing scholarships to academically outstanding students who are u.s. Citizens attending u.c.- irvine.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Organization each year awards monetary scholarships to graduate students who are seeking advanced degrees in the engineering and sciences fields. The recipients are selected based on applications submitted by them to the UC Irvine Foundation. In the 2024/2025 college school year ARCS awarded dollars of $85,000 and pledged an additional $50,000 for scholarships in the 2024/2025 academic year.

    $26,576 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. During the year the organization hosts several events that are designed to be educational and enlighting as to the advances that scientists are making. The costs of the events are generally paid for by the attendees via admission fees collected at the time of the event.

  3. THE ORGANIZATION PRINTS AND DISTRIBUTES TO ITS MEMBERS A NEWSLETTER WHICH COVERS TOPICS RELEVANT TO THE ORGANIZATIONS ACTIVITES. IT ALSO MAINTAINS A WEBSITE TO DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION TO MEMBERS AND SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS. The Organization also contributes to the National oversight organization and participates in National Meetings.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,576.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($225k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 38 ($86k) Expenses 81 ($117k) Net assets 103 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 69 ($156k) Expenses 81 ($117k) Net assets 107 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 32 ($73k) Expenses 80 ($114k) Net assets 103 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 165 ($371k) Expenses 75 ($108k) Net assets 129 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 24 ($53k) Expenses 78 ($112k) Net assets 123 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 78 ($176k) Expenses 76 ($109k) Net assets 129 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 116 ($262k) Expenses 73 ($105k) Net assets 145 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 94 ($211k) Expenses 32 ($46k) Net assets 161 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (32)Net assets (161)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.4M (+22%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

24% of Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$81k
’17
−$31k
’18
$39k
’19
−$42k
’20
$263k
’21
−$59k
’22
$67k
’23
$156k
’24
$166k
’25
34
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed141416121210101214
Joined·+5+2+5+0+2+0+2+3
No longer listed·50904001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $29k → $38.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

52% of Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

GA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin78% · top quartile
Months of reserve33.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 42%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
114%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

77%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter?
Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,173 to it, the largest being Laguna Beach Community Foundation ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $29,173 in grants to Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter.
Who is the largest funder of Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter?
Laguna Beach Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Achievement Rewards For College Scientis ts Foundation Inc Orange County Chapter find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing