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AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC

EIN 52-6051733 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2025
$3,489,706
Expenses 2025
$5,148,731

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
V030
Classification
8000
Street
1250 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 700

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

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.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,489,706
    Expenses
    $5,148,731
    Contributions
    $1,518,233
    Grants paid
    $2,102,350
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,708,422
    Expenses
    $2,849,264
    Contributions
    $7,088,895
    Grants paid
    $1,350,320
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,040,095
    Expenses
    $2,372,061
    Contributions
    $2,906,459
    Grants paid
    $1,240,192

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,353,491
    Expenses
    $2,057,963
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,860,627

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,162,912
    Expenses
    $1,849,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,241,755

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,378,258
    Expenses
    $2,647,818
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,293,815

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,215,323
    Expenses
    $2,346,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,651,100

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,381,182
    Expenses
    $2,051,518
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,946,649

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,748,683
    Expenses
    $1,895,365
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,245,905

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,483,789
    Expenses
    $1,911,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,142,137

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,105,531
    Expenses
    $1,773,012
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,790,223

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,229,431
    Expenses
    $1,689,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,951,876

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,633,787
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,134,966

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2025 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.