Missouri · Nonprofit
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,665,812 to it, the largest being ARDMORE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ($886,911). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What American College of Lifestyle Medicine does
Mission
Mission statement: advancing evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse and prevent non-communicable, chronic disease. Vision statement: a nation and world wherein lifestyle medicine is the foundation of health and all healthcare. The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (aclm) supports its members in providing whole-person, person-centered, integrated, and collaborative care through interdisciplinary teams. A lifestyle medicine-first approach to real "health" care is essential to optimizing value-based care, to achieving the quintuple aim, and to the outcome goal of whole person health. Aclm is the nation's medical professional association representing the field of lifestyle medicine, focused on treating root causes of disease with the goal of health restoration-including medication de-escalation, even discontinuance when disease remission is achieved. Aclm is dedicated to advancing the field of lifestyle medicine through research, advocacy, partnerships, practice advanceme
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Anniversary year: founded in 2004, 2024 marked aclm's 20th anniversary year, complete with aclm's june 2024 induction into the ama house of delegates. Aclm ended the year with more than 13,500 members, an increase of nearly 2,000% over the past decade. Education & events: spanning the medical education continuum, aclm's work includes a focus on undergraduate medical education (ume), graduate medical education (gme), and continuing medical education (cme) that now includes a wide array of cme/ce-accredited course offerings, including the 18-hour "remission of type 2 and reversal of insulin resistance certificate" course and a multi- module "food as medicine" for medical professionals course. More than 60,000 medical professionals registered for aclm's complimentary 5.5-hour cme/ce accredited "lifestyle medicine and food as medicine essentials" online course, which received in 2024 both the american association of medical society executives (aamse) profiles of excellence award and the american society of association executives (asae) power of associations gold award. Aclm's pledge of 100,000 complimentary course registrations was showcased in support of the white house conference on…
$5,367,503 spent$3,700,964 earned by the program61% of program spendingResearch: aclm's research department led an expert panel in the publication of aclm's first performance measures to identify remission and evaluate effectiveness of lifestyle medicine treatments. A 24-article "food as medicine" series developed by aclm was published in the frontiers of nutrition journal. Aclm's diet screener debuted, a free 27-item assessment tool to help assess and track patients' propostion of whole, unrefined plant-based foods and water intake, with work underway for it and aclm's short form assessment to be itnegrated into the epic electronic health record (ehr). Select publications included: lifestyle medicine performance measures: an expert consensus statement defining metrics to identify remission or long- term progress following lifestyle medicine treatment (american journal of lifestyle medicine. 2024:15598276241230237); American College of Lifestyle Medicine expert consensus statement: lifestyle medicine for optimal outcomes in primary care (am j lifestyle med. 2024;18(2):269-293); lifestyle medicine implementation in 8 health systems: protocol for a multiple case study investigation. (jmir res protoc. 2024;13:e51562); evaluation of the reach and…
$1,970 spent$1,907,574 earned by the program0% of program spendingPractice advancement & addressing health disparities: january 2024 marked the debut of aclm's practice advancement department, with oversight of aclm's health systems council (hsc), lifestyle medicine clinical practice integration, workforce development, and addressing lifestyle-related chronic disease health disparities. Aclm's hsc expanded to 114 members in just its third year, bringing together systems united in the pursuit of healthcare transformation to address unsustainable levels of chronic disease through integration of lifestyle medicine. A curated repository of lifestyle medicine clinical practice implementation briefs is amassing as means of sharing best practices with the goal of replication. Practice advancement plays a key role in aclm's advocacy efforts on capitol hill and in our work with key advocacy partners. Advocacy priorities include integration of lifestyle medicine, including optimal nutrition, in all medical education; addressing misaligned quality measures, advocating for measures that incent and reward lifestyle medicine root cause intervention that treats and results in remission (reversal) of disease; and payment models that support the physician-led…
$2,359,901 spent$82,376 earned by the program27% of program spendingMembership, partnerships & operations: led by a passionate and visionary 15-member board of directors, aclm continues to experience rapid membership growth, nearing the 14,000-member mark. 30 member interest groups (migs), a journal club, a robust webinar series, and more facilitate active member engagement. Aclm's 12-month "new member experience" received three awards in 2024: american association of medical society executives (aamse) profiles of excellence award, as well as two awards from the american society of association executives (asae): power of associations gold award and the gold circle award. Aclm connect, our online member community continues to experience tremendous growth in engagement, considered one of aclm's most valued member benefits. In 2024, there were over 100k downloads from aclm's extensive library of educational tools and resources. Aclm continued to forge key strategic partnerships throughout 2024, announcing a major global impact partnership with blue zones to address our nation's unsustainable chronic disease trends and associated costs. This partnership represents the intersection of clinical and community, essential for ushering in sustianable health…
$1,096,744 spent$822,510 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,826,118.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $5.1M (+64%).
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.
29% of AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $110k → $281k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 68% · 2021 90% · 2022 59% · 2023 49% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Department of Defense$100k
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 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE: 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 COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE?
- AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,665,812 to it, the largest being ARDMORE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ($886,911). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,665,812 in grants to AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE?
- ARDMORE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $886,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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