The American Foundation for Charitable Support Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860857725
IRS 990 coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
6029554770
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,214,880
Expenses
$1,851,578
Assets
$18,236,668
Liabilities
$4,624,397

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BENSON L SCHAUB (PRESIDENT/DIREC)

Highest reported compensation

  • BENSON L SCHAUB (PRESIDENT/DIREC): $199,671 total reported compensation
  • KIMBER EASTMAN (SEC DIRECTOR): $800 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT MILLER (DIRECTOR): $800 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission is to promote and facilitate the privatization of philanthropy, and help charities become more effective and successful.1. What we mean by privatization of philanthropy. Privatization of philanthropy means creating endowments or family foundations where there is ongoing donor (or donor family) involvement and direction over charitable grant making.2. Achieving our mission. We achieve our mission by creating individual, family, and corporate foundations, mostly in the more advantageous public charity setting where individuals, family members, and corporate executives retain the ongoing direction over charitable distributuions.3. Results of our mission. Our mission and efforts will result in the creation of vast amounts of new and more effective philanthropy.we are developing new charitable programs designed to help charities improve their governance structure, human resources.

What it reported doing in 2025

Providing charitable organizations in the amount of $1,107,190.allocated costs incurred in administration of charitable remainder trusts, program presentation costs to groups, and others, and distribution of grants and other costs relating to charitable programs.allocated costs include all costs that pertain to supporting and effectuation, either directly or indirectly, the charitable mission of the afcs. This mission is to promote and facilitate the privatization of philanthropy, thereby creating vast amounts of new and more effective philanthropy. Included in these costs are admistrative expenses (which include on-going trust administration costs of individual family foundations and charitable remainder trusts), printing expenses, travel and promotional expenses, postage, software, supplies, out-sourcing costs and costs incurred in assisting other charities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 32
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 59.8%; rating input score 60
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 79.1%; rating input score 79; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -52.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.85; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 59.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $200K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed
  • Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 183 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 45 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.