American Foundation for Suicide
New York, NY · EIN 13-3393329. Reported 146 grants totalling $16.1M to 79 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For American Foundation for Suicide, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in mental health -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE F110).
- How spread out its giving is. 79 distinct organizations, with 12% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $54,500. Half of what it reported fell between $31,250 and $100,000; the smallest was $7,346 and the largest $1,495,939. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ut Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $1,994,585 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $1,856,448 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $1,330,079 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,265,918 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $668,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene Inc | Menands, NY | $554,773 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Lukes Health Foundation Ltd | Boise, ID | $499,959 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $498,346 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $389,147 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $357,629 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $320,177 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $297,427 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $291,194 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital | Riverside, RI | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $222,973 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $221,970 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $199,856 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington | Renton, WA | $189,840 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Veterans Health Research Institute of Central New York Inc | Syracuse, NY | $189,821 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $180,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $127,859 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Western Kentucky University | Bowling Green, KY | $124,984 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | Columbus, OH | $121,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $117,752 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $116,807 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $114,077 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $112,966 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $112,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $112,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Chicago, IL | $111,730 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $106,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $101,949 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $101,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Old Dominion University Research Foundation | Norfolk, VA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Mississippi Medical Center | Jackson, MS | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $99,992 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Appalachian State University | Boone, NC | $99,990 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine | Bethesda, MD | $99,699 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $99,024 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $93,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American University | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Chicago, IL | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Dallas, TX | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Central Florida | Orlando, FL | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Simmons University | Boston, MA | $89,992 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Fordham University | Bronx, NY | $89,975 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Public Health Foundation Inc | City of Industry, CA | $89,965 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pacific University | Forest Grove, OR | $89,889 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $79,865 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The National Institute of Mental Health | Bethesda, MD | $72,275 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $66,444 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Psychiatric Association | Washington, DC | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $52,472 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Centerstone Research Institute Inc | Nashville, TN | $44,935 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The New School | New York, NY | $44,580 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Toledo | Toledo, OH | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $34,456 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $33,983 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wayne State University | Detroit, MI | $31,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $31,243 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Southern Mississippi | Hattiesburg, MS | $29,384 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $27,482 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, NY | $27,362 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Florida State University Research Foundation Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $22,499 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltmore, MD | $11,244 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
42 of 79 (53%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 of 79 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 25 | $4,219,698 | $100,000 |
| 2021 | 26 | $1,071,374 | $31,594 |
| 2022 | 42 | $4,357,224 | $49,998 |
| 2023 | 53 | $6,490,220 | $55,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $54,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from American Foundation for Suicide's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 50 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 199 Water Street 11TH Floor, New York, NY, 10038.
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