Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,690,075 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($544,064). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $32M
What American Psychological Foundation does
Mission
The American Psychological Foundation provides financial support for innovative research and programs that enhance the power of psychologyto elevate the human condition and advance human potential both now and in generations to come.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The American Psychological Foundation (apf) is a grantmaking organization that supports students, psychologists, and service organizations that are using psychology to create a better, more equitable world. Since its founding in 1953, apf has cultivated a portfolio of 80+ programs that disburse over $2 million annually in research and academic funding, implementation science, achievement awards, travel scholarships and non-research project funding. The foundation provided funding to 237 students, psychologists, and organizations. Apf accomplished this through scholarships to ensure that talented students can enrich the field and use their training to better humankind; lectures and awards to highlight and share the incredible body of work that psychologists have done through their career; grants to provide crucial support when funding is difficult to obtain for graduate students and early career researchers; and targeted project grants to create better lives for people across the globe. The foundation is committed to investing in programs that serve marginalized communities, prevent violence, end prejudice and stigma and address mind-body-health connections in new and innovative…
$3,421,805 spentof which $2,102,350 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,421,805.
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 2022 to 2023, from $22M to $30M (+36%).
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 2% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Michelle Ryder
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $224k → $161k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $501k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Psychological Association Inc Group Return); $324k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest American Psychological Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL 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 PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
44% 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 PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 69% · 2019 98% · 2020 69% · 2021 61% · 2022 46% · 2023 47% — 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
50% of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION'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 PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $896k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 97 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 97 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Apf Access LLC (Apfa) · disregarded
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,690,075 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($544,064). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,690,075 in grants to AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $544,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing