Colorado · Nonprofit
American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation
American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,536 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PROF GEOLOGIS ($34,436). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $0
What American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation does
Mission
The Foundation of the American Institute of Professional Geologists has been established to: make educational grants to support individual scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in applied geosciences; prepare literature with educational content about the role of geosciences as a critical component of the sciences and of the national economy and public health and safety; make grants to classroom geoscience teachers for classroom teaching aids; support development of education programs for the science and engineering community; support geoscience internships in the nations capital; support geological field trips for K-12; and support educational outreach programs to the public on the state and local level.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Scholarships
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2024 to 2025, from $309k to $0 (−100%).
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.
0% of American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mike Lawless
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $34k → $100.
From the IRS filings of American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation’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 Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation has grown faster than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation: 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 Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation?
- American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,536 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PROF GEOLOGIS ($34,436). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $34,536 in grants to American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation?
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PROF GEOLOGIS is the largest funder on record, with $34,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Institute of Professional Geologists - Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2 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