Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,865,526 to it, the largest being JOSEPH D LOCONTI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $819M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8B
What American Chemical Society does
Mission
The American Chemical Society is a federally chartered organization whose mission is to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of earth and its people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Information services the American Chemical Society (acs) achieves its goal to be an indispensable professional and information resource for members and other chemistry-related practitioners through two publishing divisions, cas, and acs publications. These divisions provide significant services to acs members and the global scientific community with accurate, timely, and authoritative chemistry and related scientific information. Cas connects the world's scientific knowledge to accelerate breakthroughs that improve lives, empowering global innovators to efficiently navigate today's complex data landscape and make confident decisions in each phase of the innovation journey. As a specialist in scientific knowledge management, cas builds the largest authoritative collection of human-curated scientific data in the world and provides essential information solutions, services, and expertise. Scientists, patent professionals, and business leaders across industries rely on cas to help them uncover opportunities, mitigate risks, and unlock shared knowledge so they can get from inspiration to innovation faster. Cas provides powerful information solutions, including the cas scifinder…
$566,178,639 spent$717,452,990 earned by the program85% of program spendingEducation and membership in 2024, acs provided formal and informal educational resources, instruction, and mentorship for elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate students and educators. The american association of chemistry teachers (aact) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024, ending the year with more than 7,300 members from 80 countries. Since its inception, aact has published over 1,100 resources written by teachers of chemistry, organized over 220 webinars and dozens more on-site workshops, and received over 10 million web visits. The us chemistry olympiad team won three gold and one silver medals at the 56th international chemistry olympiad. The impact of science outreach, including chemists celebrate earth week and national chemistry week, was enhanced by a website for outreach activities, chemistry festival grant awards, and two outreach summits. Working with the five scientific societies that established the inclusive graduate education network, the acs bridge project extended its reach in 2024 to include 45 chemical sciences departments, over 150 acs bridge fellows, and a collection of professional development activities focused on assisting those who…
$62,205,590 spentof which $8,276,916 as grants$17,638,311 earned by the program9% of program spendingAcs petroleum research fund the acs petroleum research fund is a permanently restricted endowment established to provide resources for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petroleum field, which may include any field of pure science which affords a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field. In 2024, the acs prf funded 204 grants, totaling $21.1 million. The grants included 89 new directions grants; 66 doctoral new investigator grants; 20 undergraduate research grants; 20 undergraduate new investigator grants; and 9 undergraduate new investigator supplemental grants. The following types of grants are among those funded by the acs petroleum research fund: - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at phd-granting institutions. Research grants to academic institutions for regularly appointed faculty scientists and engineers to assist advanced scientific education and fundamental research. - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at the undergraduate level. Research grants to academic institutions on behalf of faculty members in departments not offering a doctoral degree, to…
$21,922,665 spentof which $17,759,222 as grants3% of program spendingOther program services includes the American Chemical Society (acs) member insurance program, also known as the acs group life insurance trust, which provides members with insurance coverage through group insurance policies. Offerings include life, ten - and twenty - year level term life, high limit accidental death and dismemberment, hospital indemnity, disability protection, supplemental health, professional liability, and auto/homeowners insurance.
$13,686,103 spent$10,730,082 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $663,992,997.
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 $1.9B to $2.2B (+15%).
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.
1% of AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (36% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Albert Horvath
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Wayne E Jones Jr
Chair, bod, director-at-large
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $125k → $476k.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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: $32k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Organic Syntheses Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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 CHEMICAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 66% · 2019 32% · 2020 61% · 2021 26% · 2022 49% · 2023 42% — 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
33% of AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY'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
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 CHEMICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 42 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 science & tech nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $133.4M on record.
- Department of Commerce$106.2M
- Department of Defense$10.5M
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.0M
- National Science Foundation$3.4M
- Department of Agriculture$3.4M
- Environmental Protection Agency$2.8M
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 CHEMICAL SOCIETY
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- PubTech Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Acs International Ltd · corp_trust
- Acs Group Life Insurance Trust · corp_trust
- Acs International India Private Limited · corp_trust
- Chronoshub Tech Holdings · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY: 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 CHEMICAL SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,865,526 to it, the largest being JOSEPH D LOCONTI FOUNDATION ($1,000,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,865,526 in grants to AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY?
- JOSEPH D LOCONTI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 52 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