California · Nonprofit
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,784 to it, the largest being PROFESSIONAL NUMISMATISTS GUILD INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $22k
- Net assets
- $43k
What Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation does
Mission
The Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation's (acef) mission is to educate and train law enforcment officials to defend the nation's coinage and the economic impact and threat counterfeits pose to the marketplace and the public. We provide education, expertise, and other resources to law enforcement to assist in curtailing the manufacture, importation, marketing, and sale of counterfeit coins, related fakes of precious metals products, and counterfeit security packaging. We also provide training and educational materials to precious metals, rare coins and paper money dealers, private mints, sovereign mints, any entity associated with the numismatic community, and the general public on anti-counterfeiting detection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Acef raises funds for the anti-counterfeiting task force which educates law enforcement, precious metals, rare coin and paper money dealers, coin collectors, investors and the general public.
Acef raises funds for the anti-counterfeiting task force which educates law enforcement, precious metals, rare coin and paper money dealers, coin collectors, investors and the general public.
$72,657 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,657.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $53k to $115k (+118%).
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.
100% of ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $175.
1 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL 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
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
95% 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 ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 91% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $784 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION's revenue fell 48% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,106 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL 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 California
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL 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 ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,784 to it, the largest being PROFESSIONAL NUMISMATISTS GUILD INC ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $21,784 in grants to ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION?
- PROFESSIONAL NUMISMATISTS GUILD INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANTI-COUNTERFEITING EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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