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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$3,489,706
Total expenses
$5,148,731
Contributions and grants received
$1,518,233
Grants paid
$2,102,350
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$1,928,679
Other revenue
$42,794
Total assets, end of year
$33,757,862
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,436,567
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$32,321,295
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,421,805
Management and general expenses
$734,146
Fundraising expenses
$992,780
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,421,805

Program services were 66.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,518,233

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $12,980

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $897,478 · excluded $897,478

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $42,794 · excluded $42,794

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $3,372,086

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $2,340,885

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $1,031,201

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $1,031,201 · excluded $1,031,201

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $1,790,781 · program services $1,790,781

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $285,595 · program services $285,595

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $25,974 · program services $25,974

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $300,437 · program services $90,131 · management and general $90,131 · fundraising $120,175

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $1,195,644 · program services $589,599 · management and general $196,750 · fundraising $409,295

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $42,294 · program services $21,100 · management and general $6,789 · fundraising $14,405

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $145,347 · program services $68,126 · management and general $26,406 · fundraising $50,815

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $106,275 · program services $48,536 · management and general $20,203 · fundraising $37,536

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $176,981 · program services $54,095 · management and general $74,648 · fundraising $48,238

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $87,301 · management and general $87,301

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $405,702 · program services $124,004 · management and general $171,120 · fundraising $110,578

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $16,836 · program services $5,146 · management and general $7,101 · fundraising $4,589

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $29,843 · program services $20,334 · management and general $2,440 · fundraising $7,069

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $36,139 · program services $24,625 · management and general $2,953 · fundraising $8,561

  • 17 · Travel

    total $86,592 · program services $35,446 · management and general $9,044 · fundraising $42,102

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $156,771 · program services $64,174 · management and general $16,374 · fundraising $76,223

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $15,916 · program services $7,269 · management and general $3,025 · fundraising $5,622

  • 24a · Other expenses: EQUIPMENT

    total $111,257 · program services $75,810 · management and general $9,092 · fundraising $26,355

  • 24b · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $69,143 · program services $47,113 · management and general $5,651 · fundraising $16,379

  • 24c · Other expenses: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMEN

    total $49,280 · program services $33,579 · management and general $4,027 · fundraising $11,674

  • 24d · Other expenses: SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PUBLI

    total $13,355 · program services $9,100 · management and general $1,091 · fundraising $3,164

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $1,268 · program services $1,268

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $732,862 · end of year $304,405

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,415,737 · end of year $1,947,867

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $2,133,613 · end of year $308,422

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $42,468 · end of year $101,664

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $68,336

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $55,342

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $28,910 · end of year $12,994

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $29,489,197 · end of year $31,071,045

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $9,479 · end of year $11,465

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $92,542 · end of year $231,968

  • 18 · Grants payable

    beginning of year $658,675 · end of year $1,204,599

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,802,645 · end of year $4,930,543

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $27,298,404 · end of year $27,390,752

Mission and programs · 2025

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.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND PROGRAMS THAT ENHANCE THE POWER OF PSYCHOLOGY TO ELEVATE THE HUMAN CONDITION AND ADVANCE HUMAN POTENTIAL BOTH NOW AND IN GENERATIONS TO COME.

  • 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 WAYS.

    Expenses $3,421,805 · Grants $2,102,350

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Melba Vasquez

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Katherine Nordal

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Linda Forrest

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • W Bruce Walsh

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J Gayle Beck

    BOARD MEMBER, (LEFT AUGUST 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dorothy Cantor

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Douglas C Haldeman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anthony Jackson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Antonio E Puente

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Derek Phillips

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsey Buckman

    BOARD MEMBER, (FROM FEBRUARY 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Angelo Dibello

    BOARD MEMBER, (FROM FEBRUARY 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elena Grigorenko

    BOARD MEMBER, (FROM FEBRUARY 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leigh Miles Jackson

    BOARD MEMBER, (FROM FEBRUARY 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandra Shullman

    BOARD MEMBER, (FROM FEBRUARY 2025)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michelle Ryder

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $300,438
    From this org
    $277,908
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,530
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $277,908
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,385
    Nontaxable benefits
    $11,145
    Filer's total
    $300,438

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • APF ACCESS LLC (APFA)

    SEE PART VII BELOW · DC · assets $58,715

    Directly controlled by AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
1 September 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202622449349300732

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