New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH
AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH (New York) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,922,757 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($450,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $796k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $482k
What American Council on Science and Health does
Mission
To ensure that peer-reviewed, evidence-based science reaches the public, the media, and the decision-makers who determine public policy. Our objective is to restore science and common sense to personal and public health decisions, in order to foster a scientifically sound and sensible public health policy for the american people. Acsh is committed to improving communication and dialogue between the scientific/medical community and the public, and the media, in an effort to ensure that the coverage of health issues is based on scientific facts - not hyperbole, emotion and ideology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Acsh achieves its mission through ongoing general educational programs and activities that include: producing peer-reviewed publications; producing and distributing a daily e-news brief and feed that presents acsh's scientific perspective on current and/or emerging health and science-related news stories, events and/or medical breakthroughs; producing informative video commentaries, podcasts, and films; writing op-eds, commentaries and letters-to-the editor that are published in leading national and local newspapers, popular magazines and/or journals; hosting an educational website at acsh.org that provides scientific assessments of current trends and studies in health and medicine, and free download of acsh scientific publications; appearing on radio and tv to dispel myths and confront controversies head on; cultivating partnership opportunities with like-minded institutions and organizations; providing oral and written testimony at regulatory and legislative hearings and forums; hosting social media portals and channels on youtube, x/twitter, instagram, spotify, linkedin, and facebook.highlights of the 2025 fiscal period: 1) published more than 590 articles on our www.acsh.org…
$766,039 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $766,039.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.3M to $489k (−64%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $26k → $427k.
10 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% 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 COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 58% · 2021 32% · 2022 37% · 2023 28% — 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 COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $789k 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.
Organizations like AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH
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 New York
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
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: 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 COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH?
- AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH (New York) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,922,757 to it, the largest being SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ($450,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,922,757 in grants to AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH?
- SARAH SCAIFE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 44 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