New York · Nonprofit
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,726 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC ($160,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $334k
- Net assets
- $27M
What Acoustical Society of America does
Mission
To generate, disseminate, and promote the knowledge and practical applications of acoustics.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Meetings: the asa holds 2 meetings each year attracting between 1,000 and 2000 attendees at each. Meetings include 800 to 1,300 individual technical presentations, technical committee meetings, standards committee meetings, and networking events.student award competitions are conducted at these meetings including awards for best paper and poster presentations. Travel support is provided for student transportation to attend meetings. Asa also provides activities and support to encourage attendance by early-career acousticians and women acousticians such as early-career retreats, fellowship and grant panels, women young investigator grants and dependent care grants. Social events include a reception for all attendees, a students reception and a women in acoustics luncheon.
$2,094,817 spent$1,731,248 earned by the program40% of program spendingPublishing:the asa publishes (a) the journal of the Acoustical Society of America in print and online formats: circulation 5,800 members and approximately 800 institutions worldwide; (b) jasa express letters an open access publication that can be accessed by anyone with a connection to the internet; (c) proceedings of meetings on acoustics, an open access publication and can be accessed by anyone with a connection to the internet; (d) acoustics today magazine in print and online in open access format. Circulation 5,800 members and approximately 800 institutions worldwide; (e) standards on acoustics available for online purchase and download. (f) online archival publications including echoes, acoustics research letters online, noise its uses and control magazine, and sound magazine.
$1,175,202 spent$2,477,463 earned by the program23% of program spendingOutreach activities:the Acoustical Society of America's (asa) outreach encompasses activities aimed at k-12 students and teachers, the general public, the press, acousticians in different stages of their careers, other acoustical societies, and organizations in scientific disciplines other than acoustics. Outreach events are held at meetings of asa meetings of other scientific organizations. Asa also cosponsors symposiums, workshops, and conferences organized by of other organizations both in the us and abroad. Other outreach information is provided via asa websites including acoustics.org, exploresound.org, acousticstoday.org, and acousticalsociety.org.outreach to science reporters is provided via press conferences broadcast live over the internet. Reporters can participate in these press conferences and interact with the presenters. Prior to the meeting press releases and lay versions of presentations are made available on the asa website, acoustics.org.asa sponsors biennial science communication awards for professionals in acoustics and for journalists which are intended to recognize excellence in the presentation of acoustics related topics to a popular audience. Cash prizes…
$510,297 spent$68,100 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther programs include:- standards- the foundation fund- books- acoustics today
$1,394,695 spentof which $243,126 as grants$1,166,894 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,175,011.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $28M to $23M (−18%).
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.
1% of ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Susan E Fox
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $95k.
2 of 6 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 ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA’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
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 98% · 2022 54% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.
“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
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $231k on record.
- Department of Defense$176k
- Department of Commerce$25k
- Department of Health and Human Services$18k
- Department of the Interior$13k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 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 ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA?
- ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $333,726 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC ($160,250). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $333,726 in grants to ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA?
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing