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ACI FOUNDATION

ACI FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,842 to it, the largest being THE CAROLINAS CHAPTER OF THE AMERIC N CONCREATE INSTITUE ($64,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$219k
Net assets
$6.3M
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Aci Foundation does

Mission

To receive, adminster, and expend funds for educational, research, scientific, and charitable purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scholarship council - establish and manage monetary awards (scholarships) for graduate and undergraduate students studying in concrete-related fields; support students who are emerging leaders and knowledge experts in the feild of concrete; acknowledge the achievement of such students.

    $828,245 spentof which $545,314 as grants$44,428 earned by the program
    45% of program spending
  2. Concrete research council - manages the funding and dissemination of high-quality research on concrete materials, construction and structures, and sub-categories related to each; works with aci committees to provide endorsement of qualified projects; funds or co-funds the research program; disseminates the research product.

    $654,848 spentof which $408,814 as grants
    35% of program spending
  3. Concrete innovation council - identifies technologies (structural systems, methods, products, materials) and innovations that provide needed solutions for the concrete industry and helps implement their use when appropriate, which includes, but is not limited to financial support of research, technical document development, business cases, education and training, and promotion of new technology and innovations.

    $366,438 spentof which $228,763 as grants
    20% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,849,531.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 164 ($1.9M) Expenses 109 ($1.1M) Net assets 145 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 143 ($1.6M) Expenses 129 ($1.3M) Net assets 165 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 173 ($2.0M) Expenses 118 ($1.2M) Net assets 211 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 188 ($2.1M) Expenses 115 ($1.2M) Net assets 261 ($4.3M)2022 Revenue 185 ($2.1M) Expenses 164 ($1.7M) Net assets 266 ($4.4M)2023 Revenue 274 ($3.1M) Expenses 275 ($2.8M) Net assets 303 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 290 ($3.3M) Expenses 270 ($2.8M) Net assets 354 ($5.8M)2025 Revenue 218 ($2.5M) Expenses 235 ($2.4M) Net assets 380 ($6.3M)
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Revenue (218)Expenses (235)Net assets (380)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.5M to $5.4M (+20%).

$2.1M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$3.6M
$4.4M
$4.5M
$5.4M
$5.8M
$6.4M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$117k
’17
$746k
’18
$309k
’19
$755k
’20
$965k
’21
$427k
’22
$309k
’23
$540k
’24
$84k
’25
3.1
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.

Chief executive

Ann Masek

Executive director/secreta

Board chair

Michael Schneider

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $65k → $10k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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: $11M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Concrete Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money ACI FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ACI FOUNDATION’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

ACI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 ACI FOUNDATION.

29%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 57% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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

25% of ACI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

ACI FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 5 states in all.

NV
CA
MO
VA
SC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ACI FOUNDATION

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 15%Fundraising 8%

Governance

9
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • American Concrete Institute · exempt
  • Aci Center of Excellence for Nonmetallis in Building Materials · exempt
  • Aci Center of Excellence for Carbon Neutral Products · exempt
  • Aci Center of Excellence for Concrete Industry Productivity · exempt
  • Advancing Organizational Excellence · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACI FOUNDATION: 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 ACI FOUNDATION?
ACI FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,842 to it, the largest being THE CAROLINAS CHAPTER OF THE AMERIC N CONCREATE INSTITUE ($64,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACI FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $218,842 in grants to ACI FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACI FOUNDATION?
THE CAROLINAS CHAPTER OF THE AMERIC N CONCREATE INSTITUE is the largest funder on record, with $64,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACI FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing