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AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE
AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,794 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION ($373,980). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $513k
- Net assets
- $14M
What American Geosciences Institute does
Mission
The American Geosciences Institute (agi) was founded in 1948, under a directive of the national academy of sciences, as a network of associations representing geoscientists with a diverse array of skills and knowledge of our planet. The institute provides information services to geoscientists, serves as a voice of shared interests in our profession, plays a major role in strengthening geoscience education , and strives to increase public awareness of the vital role the geosciences play in society's use of resources, resilience to natural hazards, and the health of the environment. Agi connects earth, science, and people by serving as a unifying force for the geoscience community. With a network of more than 65 member and affiliated organizations, agi represents over a quarter-million geoscientists across the country and around the world. No matter one's individual discipline, agi's essential programs and services will strengthen connection to the geosciences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Georef: the computerized bibliographic database records and indexes the world 's geoscience literature making this information accessible to earth scientists and the general public. Established by the American Geosciences Institute in 1966, the georef database provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. Georef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 100,000 references a year. The database contains over 4 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
$2,781,133 spent$3,714,198 earned by the program68% of program spendingEducation : agi 's education program include awards for excellence in teaching k-12 earth science, working in partnership with commercial publishers to provide exemplary earth science curricu la, offering both face-to-face and online earth science professional development opportunities for k-12 teachers, a collection of resources to aid in k-12 earth science teaching, and online resources for professional geoscientists working with classroom teachers.
$840,043 spentof which $3,700 as grants$147,142 earned by the program21% of program spendingWorkforce: includes geoscience workforce data, resources for higher education and careers in the geosciences, and special programs such as the geoscience online learning initiative (goli), an agi-aipg collaboration providing free on-demand courses.the agi workforce program was built on data collection and analysis. Since 1955, agi has maintained databases of academic geoscience programs in the united states, and more recently, globally. In addition, the workforce program also conducts regular surveys on geoscience graduates and reports on the state of the geoscience workforce biennially. We also provide baseline data from federal and industry sources on general interest items, such as salaries and employment levels.
$237,800 spent$135,620 earned by the program6% of program spendingCenter for geoscience & society: the mission of agi 's center for geoscience and society is to enhance geoscience awareness across all sectors of society. The center accomplishes this by generating new approaches to building geoscience knowledge, engaging the widest possible range of stakeholders, and creatively promoting existing and new resources and programs.
$135,096 spent3% of program spendingGeoscience policy program: the geoscience policy program works with agi member societ ies and federal policy makers to advocate on behalf of the shared interests of the geoscience profession. Geoscience policy program staff track and analyze policy issues; update the geoscience community through news briefs that cover federal legislation, appropriations, and hearings; and organize meetings, briefings, testimony and written submissions on geoscience policy issues.
$46,611 spent1% of program spendingAgi publications: since 1948, agi has provided premier publishing, curriculum development, and information services to the geoscience community. Representing over fifty earth science societies and other community cooperatives, agi's publishing efforts increase public awareness of the vita l role the geosciences play in our world . Agi's reference books (glossary of geology, the geoscience handbook, directory of geoscience departments) provide critical knowledge to the geoscience student or professional. Our educational products, such as those related to earth science week and classroom cu rricu la, steer future geoscientists to the right path and agi's reports on the geoscientific academic community and the workforce feature crucia l information and statistics extremely important for the recent, or soon to- be, college graduate."
$22,749 spent$48,324 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,063,432.
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 2021 to 2022, from $12M to $16M (+37%).
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: 2021 12% · 2023 0% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Jonathan Arthur
Executive director
Board chair
Nick Tew
Gdr chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $104k → $37k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $7.9M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Geosciences Institute Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE’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 GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 67% · 2019 43% · 2020 54% · 2021 59% · 2022 58% · 2023 67% — 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
29% of AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 4 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.
Government funding AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record — $3.7M federal, $1k state.
- Department of the Interior$1.8M
- National Science Foundation$1.6M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$208k
- Department of Agriculture$164k
- DEDICATED$795
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$591
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 GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE?
- AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $512,794 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION ($373,980). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $512,794 in grants to AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $373,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN GEOSCIENCES INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 8 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