New Jersey · Nonprofit
AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY
AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY (New Jersey) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,635 to it, the largest being LUNDBECK US CHARITABLE FUND ($319,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $673k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What American Headache Society does
Mission
The American Headache Society (ahs) is a nonprofit professional society of healthcare providers dedicated to the study and treatment of headache and face pain in order to improve the care and lives of people living with headache disorders. In accordance with this mission, ahs promotes the exchange of information and ideas concerning the causes and treatments of headache and related pain disorders; educates physicians, health professionals, and the public; and encourages scientific research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educational conferences and programs - ahs is an accredited continuing medical education sponsor ahs hosts a variety of educational conferences and events throughout the year designed to empower healthcare providers and medical students and educate them on recent research and treatment options in the field of headache medicine. These conferences and programs include:-annual scientific meeting-annual scottsdale headache symposium-mastering migraine therapies program-international headache academy-first contact education program-emerging leaders and resident education programs
$3,567,732 spentof which $127,481 as grants$3,481,308 earned by the program91% of program spendingMembership, publications, and research - as a professional membership society of healthcare providers dedicated to the study and treatment of headache and face pain, ahs assesses membership dues. Ahs also receives various royalties and editorial reimbursements under publication agreements, including those for its journal "headache: the journal of head and face pain". The journal is published 10 times year and features original articles on all aspects of head and face pain including communications on clinical and basic research, diagnosis and management, epidemiology, genetics, and pathophysiology of primary and secondary headaches, cranial neuralgias, and pains referred to the head and face.
$332,401 spentof which $57,500 as grants$1,319,468 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,900,133.
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 $9.3M to $7.2M (−22%).
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.
8% of AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY’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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Howard Rosen
CEO (tmg)
Board chair
Christine Lay Md Fahs
Chair - american migraine
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $58k → $6k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 HEADACHE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 HEADACHE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 59% · 2023 94% — 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
29% of AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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 HEADACHE SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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 HEADACHE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $37k on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$37k
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 HEADACHE SOCIETY
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 Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 HEADACHE SOCIETY: 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 HEADACHE SOCIETY?
- AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY (New Jersey) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $672,635 to it, the largest being LUNDBECK US CHARITABLE FUND ($319,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $672,635 in grants to AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY?
- LUNDBECK US CHARITABLE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $319,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN HEADACHE SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 11 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