New York · Nonprofit
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,264,260 to it, the largest being GLENN FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC ($16,727,136). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $30M
What American Federation for Aging Research Inc does
Mission
The american federation for aging research (afar) is a national organization whose mission is to support and advance healthy aging through biomedical research. (continued on schedule o)it fulfills this mission by: supporting research through grant programs that further our understanding of the aging process and its associated diseases and disorders; helping establish a pipeline of early career scientists in aging research and geroscience; offering opportunities for scientists and physicians to exchange new ideas and knowledge about aging; and promoting awareness about the importance of research in the aging field.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Scientific programs: awards for biomedical research into aging, conferences and coordination. During 2025 afar awarded 75 research grants totaling $7,408,581 and held 3 scientific conferences.
$10,587,532 spentof which $7,408,581 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $10,587,532.
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 2022 to 2023, from $34M to $47M (+38%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 17% · 2019 24% · 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2022 6% · 2023 6% · 2024 12% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Stephanie Lederman
Executive director
Board chair
Laura M Barzilai Jd Llm
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $113k → $4.9M.
11 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. 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 FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 40% · 2019 55% · 2020 27% · 2021 63% · 2022 42% · 2023 85% — growing more concentrated.
“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
43% of AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC is better cushioned than half of the 97 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 97 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH 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 New York
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
32%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC?
- AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,264,260 to it, the largest being GLENN FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC ($16,727,136). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $31,264,260 in grants to AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC?
- GLENN FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,727,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing