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American Balint Society

American Balint Society (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$157k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$16
Net assets
$191k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What American Balint Society does

Mission

To promote and advance research, studies and training on the psychological aspects of primary medical practice, with special reference to the doctor/patient relationship, and to disseminate this knowledge beyond the society for the improvement of the medical care of the public at large. To provide an opportunity for the study of problems in the doctor/patient relationship, the society acts primarily to describe, promote, support, and train leaders for groups of the type initiated by dr. Balint, now established in medical school, residency training and primary care practice in this country

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To promote and advance research, studies and training on the psychological aspects of primary medical practice, with special reference to the doctor/patient relationship, and to disseminate this knowledge beyond the society for the improvement of the medical care of the public at large. To provide an opportunity for the study of problems in the doctor/patient relationship, the society acts primarily to describe, promote, support, and train leaders for groups of the type initiated by dr. Balint, now established in medical school, residency training and primary care practice in this country

    $149,323 spent$157,274 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $149,323.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($129k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2018 Revenue 125 ($150k) Expenses 104 ($134k) Net assets 123 ($83k)2019 Revenue 165 ($198k) Expenses 124 ($159k) Net assets 179 ($121k)2020 Revenue 73 ($87k) Expenses 75 ($96k) Net assets 165 ($112k)2021 Revenue 157 ($188k) Expenses 86 ($111k) Net assets 279 ($189k)2022 Revenue 255 ($305k) Expenses 171 ($220k) Net assets 404 ($274k)2023 Revenue 195 ($234k) Expenses 209 ($269k) Net assets 353 ($239k)2024 Revenue 171 ($205k) Expenses 169 ($217k) Net assets 334 ($226k)2025 Revenue 131 ($157k) Expenses 150 ($193k) Net assets 281 ($191k)
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Revenue (131)Expenses (150)Net assets (281)Peer revenue range

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 $189k to $274k (+45%).

$68k
$83k
$121k
$112k
$189k
$274k
$239k
$226k
$191k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

4% of American Balint Society’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$15k
’18
$38k
’19
−$10k
’20
$77k
’21
$85k
’22
−$35k
’23
−$13k
’24
−$36k
’25
12
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.

2022202320242025
Listed1111119
Joined·+9+0+1
No longer listed·903
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $11.

Funder
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 American Balint Society’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

100% of American Balint Society's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

American Balint Society is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve11.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds American Balint Society?
American Balint Society (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does American Balint Society have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16 in grants to American Balint Society, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of American Balint Society?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like American Balint Society find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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