Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
American Center for Mongolian Studies
American Center for Mongolian Studies (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,196,431 to it, the largest being Council of American Overseas Research Centers ($686,270). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $469k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $847k
What American Center for Mongolian Studies does
Mission
The American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) is an academic organization promoting scholarship and research about, and in, Mongolia. The organization provides support services to students and faculty conducting study or research in Mongolia at its full-service resource center and library in Mongolia. The Organization also conducts a variety of public outreach and educational activities, including lectures and language training.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Speaker Series and Researchers -ACMS supported public scholarship and research through its Speaker Series and targeted fellowships. During the fiscal year, ACMS held 17 in-person and virtual lectures and roundtables in Ulaanbaatar and online, featuring Mongolian and international scholars and addressing topics including history, archaeology, law, public health, and environmental studies. ACMS awarded two Research Fellowships supporting doctoral and faculty research projects and collaborated with U.S. and Mongolian partners to host a virtual panel series on cross-border research collaboration.
$13,215 spent4% of program spendingResource Center and Library in Mongolia -ACMS maintained a fully staffed resource center and research library in Ulaanbaatar, providing access to a multilingual collection of more than 5,000 titles and research support to scholars and students from Mongolia and abroad. ACMS conducted library-related outreach and professional activities during the year, including World Book Day programming, librarian knowledge-sharing events, and the release of Mongolia's first Mongolian-language MARC 21 cataloging guideline. ACMS also supported major cultural heritage initiatives, including activities associated with a U.S. Ambassador-funded manuscript conservation project at the National Library of Mongolia.
$14,946 spent4% of program spendingLanguage Program, Field Schools, and Study Tours -ACMS offered year-round Mongolian language instruction and an intensive summer language program and conducted three Mongolia Field School courses during summer 2025 focused on biodiversity conservation, archaeology, and community-based park management. The Field Schools welcomed 41 participants from eight countries and included fellowship support in the form of tuition discounts. ACMS also hosted multiple U.S. university and educator programs, providing immersive academic and cultural experiences through lectures, site visits, and engagement with local experts.
$338,830 spentof which $69,150 as grants$186,340 earned by the program92% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $366,991.
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 2017 to 2018, from $369k to $786k (+113%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 58% · 2018 35% · 2019 60% · 2020 64% · 2021 73% · 2022 53% · 2023 64% · 2024 67% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of American Center for Mongolian Studies’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $303k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 American Center for Mongolian Studies’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
American Center for Mongolian Studies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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
59% 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 American Center for Mongolian Studies.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 85% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
American Center for Mongolian Studies draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Against its field
American Center for Mongolian Studies holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 169 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding American Center for Mongolian Studies receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $735k on record.
- Department of Education$474k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$146k
- Department of State$115k
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 Center for Mongolian Studies
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds American Center for Mongolian Studies?
- American Center for Mongolian Studies (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,196,431 to it, the largest being Council of American Overseas Research Centers ($686,270). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Center for Mongolian Studies have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,196,431 in grants to American Center for Mongolian Studies, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Center for Mongolian Studies?
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers is the largest funder on record, with $686,270 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Center for Mongolian Studies find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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