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AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION

AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY NATURAL GAS COMPANY CHARITY INC ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$19k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$750
Net assets
$180k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What American Fisheries Society Education Section does

Mission

To improve the quality of education for fisheries students and scientists,promote exchange of education information, techniques, and materials among educators and among educational institutions,foster improved communication and information exchange among fishery educators, employers, fisheries specialists, students, and the public.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Awards for students, meeting support and travel for undergraduates in the developmeny and advancement of fisheries science

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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 ($50k) Expenses 100 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($182k)2018 Revenue 35 ($17k) Expenses 196 ($31k) Net assets 94 ($171k)2019 Revenue 39 ($19k) Expenses 94 ($15k) Net assets 99 ($180k)
201720182019
Revenue (39)Expenses (94)Net assets (99)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $182k to $171k (−6%).

$182k
$171k
$180k
201720182019
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
−$14k
’18
$5k
’19
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION’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

AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.

NJ

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 FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION

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.

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 FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION?
AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $750 to it, the largest being NEW JERSEY NATURAL GAS COMPANY CHARITY INC ($750). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $750 in grants to AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION?
NEW JERSEY NATURAL GAS COMPANY CHARITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN FISHERIES SOCIETY EDUCATION SECTION 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), 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