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AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,093,298 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($544,064). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$9.2M
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$33M
Net assets
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%

Against its field

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 174 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin57% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 174 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 135 ($3.2M) Expenses 114 ($2.3M) Net assets 94 ($17M)2019 Revenue 58 ($1.4M) Expenses 129 ($2.6M) Net assets 104 ($19M)2020 Revenue 49 ($1.2M) Expenses 90 ($1.8M) Net assets 111 ($20M)2021 Revenue 309 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 138 ($25M)2022 Revenue 170 ($4.0M) Expenses 116 ($2.4M) Net assets 114 ($21M)2023 Revenue 324 ($7.7M) Expenses 139 ($2.8M) Net assets 156 ($29M)2024 Revenue 388 ($9.2M) Expenses 193 ($4.0M) Net assets 180 ($33M)
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Revenue (388)Expenses (193)Net assets (180)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

60% of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 181 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$330k
17
$869k
18
$1.3M
19
$687k
20
$5.3M
21
$1.7M
22
$4.9M
23
$5.3M
24
6.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $224k → $161k.

7 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% 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 Inc). 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 26% 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

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 PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION.

26%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 69% · 2019 98% · 2020 21% · 2021 25% · 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

44% of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 5 states in all.

IL
NY
CA
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $896k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 20%Fundraising 13%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

31%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 28 states

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Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Apf Access LLC (Apfa) · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION?
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,093,298 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($544,064). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,093,298 in grants to AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION?
Schwab Charitable Fund 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing