Massachusetts · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,250 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES OF SURGERY OF THE HAND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What American Association for Hand Surgery Inc does
Mission
Working together to advance global hand care and education by providing forums and seminars, and facilitating programs to educate surgeons, therapists and the hand care team.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Meetings and education - to conduct forums and seminars to educate surgeons and therapists.
$748,709 spent$555,753 earned by the program65% of program spendingGrants - the association makes grants and provides general support to organizations and individuals doing work in the realm of hand surgery and therapy as detailed in schedule I.
$160,295 spentof which $160,295 as grants14% of program spendingCommitees and representatives - the association assembles committee and representatives to help organize and operate various functions of the association.
$120,001 spent$164,683 earned by the program10% of program spendingPublications - to publish journal and newsletters for members. The approximate number of members who received benefit of the hand journal was 1,500 members.
$118,272 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,147,277.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.2M to $4.2M (+33%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC’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
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC.
“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
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
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.
Organizations like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Hand Surgery Endowment · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC: 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,250 to it, the largest being INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES OF SURGERY OF THE HAND ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,250 in grants to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC?
- INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES OF SURGERY OF THE HAND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR HAND SURGERY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 2 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