Arizona · Nonprofit
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,517 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM BEAU WRIGLEY JR FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $795k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $304k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Inc does
Mission
The arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. Citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering, and medical research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The phoenix chapter of arcs foundation, inc., uses the following procedures to determine an individual's qualification for a scholar award:the foundation's chairperson coordinates with the deans of the graduate colleges of arizona's three public universities to find qualified graduate students. These graduate students are studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medicine research. The universities are responsible for the selecting of the specific requirements.
$463,513 spentof which $416,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $463,513.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.4M to $3.8M (+12%).
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.
85% of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $9k → $44k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC’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 SCIENTISTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
30% 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 SCIENTISTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
62% of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC?
- ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,517 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM BEAU WRIGLEY JR FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $303,517 in grants to ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC?
- THE WILLIAM BEAU WRIGLEY JR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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