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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $168,854 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY INC ($168,854). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$169k
Net assets
$945k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What American Academy of Pain Medicine does

Mission

American Academy of Pain Medicine (the academy) is dedicated to advancing multidisciplinary pain care education, advocacy, and research to improve the quality of life for our members and those they treat.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.

Albp consensus guideline was a new program that was introduced during 2023. Innovation challenge was a new program that was introduced during 2024.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).

  1. Conference and on-demand education: pain physicians and healthcare professionals receive continuing medical education in the specialty of pain medicine. The academy's annual meeting, painconnect, offers up to 24.5 cmes, apa, and acpe continuing education credits annually. The education programs include the aapm scholars hands-on training program, and enduring content courses such as pain rounds neuromodulation training, and pain perspectives pain management.

  2. Journal & newsletter: pain medicine is the official journal of the academy. This publication is devoted to the advancement of pain management, education, and research. The weekly e-newsletter provides the most current information on pain medicine, advocacy related to pain as a specialty, clinical trials, members in the news, and aapm updates. Membership - allows access to a professional community of physicians. Every membership includes a subscription to our journal and e-newsletter.

  3. Memberships: the academy's membership provides access to a community of physicians and healthcare professionals with a sustained interest in pain disorders and management. Members represent a variety of origins, including anesthesiology, internal medicine, emergency medicine, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, physiatry, psychiatry, and psychology.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.9M) Net assets 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 85 ($3.4M) Expenses 104 ($4.1M) Net assets 68 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 79 ($3.1M) Expenses 92 ($3.6M) Net assets 64 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 74 ($2.9M) Expenses 78 ($3.0M) Net assets 57 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 20 ($778k) Expenses 25 ($995k) Net assets 51 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 33 ($1.3M) Expenses 42 ($1.6M) Net assets 33 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 37 ($1.5M) Expenses 41 ($1.6M) Net assets 34 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 37 ($1.5M) Expenses 44 ($1.7M) Net assets 29 ($945k)
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Revenue (37)Expenses (44)Net assets (29)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.7M to $2.5M (−34%).

$5.1M
$3.9M
$3.7M
$2.5M
$2.3M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$58k
’17
−$698k
’18
−$448k
’19
−$113k
’20
−$217k
’21
−$322k
’22
−$150k
’23
−$257k
’24
1.7
months of
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

Sharon H Kneebone Iom Fasae Cae

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1618151516172021
Joined·+6+3+3+3+4+5+7
No longer listed·4632326
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $30k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $614k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Academy of Pain Medicine Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE’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.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

RI

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE

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 Maryland

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Academy of Pain Medicine Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE?
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $168,854 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY INC ($168,854). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $168,854 in grants to AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE?
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $168,854 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PAIN MEDICINE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 1 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