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AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,813 to it, the largest being THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC ($411,699). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$9.1M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$429k
Net assets
$-1045154
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics does

Mission

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (acmg) provides education, resources and a voice for the medical genetics profession. To make genetic services available to and improve the health of the public, the acmg promotes the development and implementation of methods to diagnose, treat and prevent genetic diseases.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 2023 annual meeting - annual conference for medical geneticists providing education on the latest genetics research, news and policy.

  2. Education - this program provides education and tools for medical geneticist, and other health professionals and the public to help grow the genetic workforce.

  3. Journal - a monthly medical journal on genetics, "genetics in medicine", is provided without charge to dues-paying members.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 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 ($9.1M) Expenses 100 ($9.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 104 ($9.5M) Expenses 105 ($9.5M) Net assets 95 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 123 ($11M) Expenses 120 ($11M) Net assets 121 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 92 ($8.4M) Expenses 102 ($9.2M) Net assets 69 ($983k)2021 Revenue 120 ($11M) Expenses 113 ($10M) Net assets 123 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 105 ($9.6M) Expenses 136 ($12M) Net assets -15 ($-210602)2023 Revenue 128 ($12M) Expenses 138 ($13M) Net assets -55 ($-785442)2024 Revenue 100 ($9.1M) Expenses 103 ($9.4M) Net assets -73 ($-1045154)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (103)Net assets (-73)

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 $5.3M to $3.4M (−36%).

$4.2M
$4.5M
$5.3M
$3.4M
$5.3M
$4.1M
$4.0M
$4.4M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 43% · 2021 44% · 2022 51% · 2023 43% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’17
−$29k
’18
$310k
’19
−$810k
’20
$726k
’21
−$2.7M
’22
−$856k
’23
−$268k
’24
1.8
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

Melanie Wells

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed2424242423222424
Joined·+3+8+2+5+1+7+10
No longer listed·38262510
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $64k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'24*
total
March of Dimes Incunclassified
$10k
funders
1
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $85k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS’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 MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

100% 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 MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.

“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 COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.

MO
VA
DC

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

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’19
’20
’21
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 COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS

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

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS?
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $428,813 to it, the largest being THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC ($411,699). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $428,813 in grants to AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS?
THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC is the largest funder on record, with $411,699 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL GENETICS AND GENOMICS 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 3 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