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ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,048,525 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,385). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $770k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $432k
What Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter does
Mission
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
Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding us citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research. Since 1978, the seattle chapter of arcs foundation has awarded graduate fellowships to outstanding united states citizens completing phd degrees in science, engineering and medical research at the university of washington and washington state university. Over $24 million has been contributed by the seattle chapter to over 1600 talented students pursuing their dreams to solve the scientific challenges facing our world today. These monies have given our state's research universities a competitive edge as they recruit the nation's finest doctoral candidates to their premier programs. Fellowship awards are made to the university of washington (uw) and washington state university (wsu). There were 37 uw fellowships and 10 wsu fellowships newly granted during the 2024-2025 fiscal year.
$517,968 spentof which $420,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $517,968.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $1.1M (−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.
105% of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $114k → $124k.
13 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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: $14k 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 SEATTLE CHAPTER raised.
From the IRS filings of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE 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 SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 SEATTLE CHAPTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 35% · 2022 31% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“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
80% of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
96% of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE 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 $47k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SEATTLE CHAPTER is better cushioned than half 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 SEATTLE CHAPTER
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER?
- ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER (Washington) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,048,525 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($290,385). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% 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 SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,048,525 in grants to ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $290,385 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 16 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