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American Bureau of Shipping

American Bureau of Shipping (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,273,456 to it, the largest being National Academy of Sciences ($3,273,456). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$537M
Revenue FY2024
1
Funders on record
$3.3M
Grants received
$1.9B
Net assets
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($484M) Expenses 100 ($422M) Net assets 100 ($1.4B)2018 Revenue 95 ($460M) Expenses 102 ($429M) Net assets 97 ($1.3B)2019 Revenue 93 ($452M) Expenses 108 ($455M) Net assets 110 ($1.5B)2020 Revenue 99 ($482M) Expenses 99 ($417M) Net assets 117 ($1.6B)2021 Revenue 94 ($455M) Expenses 97 ($409M) Net assets 126 ($1.7B)2022 Revenue 101 ($488M) Expenses 101 ($427M) Net assets 115 ($1.6B)2023 Revenue 112 ($541M) Expenses 114 ($479M) Net assets 129 ($1.8B)2024 Revenue 111 ($537M) Expenses 122 ($515M) Net assets 139 ($1.9B)
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Revenue (111)Expenses (122)Net assets (139)

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.

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2018
2019
2020
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2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$62M
17
$31M
18
$2.8M
19
$65M
20
$46M
21
$60M
22
$62M
23
$22M
24
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1.3M → $543k.

Funder
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'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of American Bureau of Shipping’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.

Where its funders are

American Bureau of Shipping draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.

DC

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

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Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding American Bureau of Shipping receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $172.6M on record — $172.6M federal, $4k state.

Federal$172.6M
grants $20.3Mcontracts $152.3M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$128.1M
  • Department of Transportation$24.4M
  • Department of Commerce$9.4M
  • Department of Homeland Security$4.6M
  • Department of Energy$3.5M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
State$4k
Top programs
  • TRUST FUND$4k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like American Bureau of Shipping

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
75%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 78 related entities

  • Common Structural Rules Software LLC · partnership
  • Herbert - ABS Software Solutions LLC · partnership
  • ABS Group of Companies Inc · corp_trust
  • ABSG Consulting Inc · corp_trust
  • ABS Quality Evaluations Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Bureau of Shipping: 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 American Bureau of Shipping?
American Bureau of Shipping (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,273,456 to it, the largest being National Academy of Sciences ($3,273,456). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does American Bureau of Shipping have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,273,456 in grants to American Bureau of Shipping, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of American Bureau of Shipping?
National Academy of Sciences is the largest funder on record, with $3,273,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Bureau of Shipping find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing