Virginia · Nonprofit
American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc
American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,797 to it, the largest being GALACTOSEMIA FOUNDATION ($115,555). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc does
Mission
The American Institute of Biological Sciences AIBS is a national scientific organization promoting the use of science to inform decision-making which advances biology for the benefit of science and society. AIBS initiatives are unified by a commitment to this mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Scientific Peer Advisory Review Services, aka SPARS, works to provide scientific funding organizations with independent, highly credible, expert peer review services for evaluating proposed research and assessing ongoing or completed research to enable the most meritorious science.
$703,069 spent$1,686,406 earned by the program67% of program spendingPublications Commnunications The American Institute of Biological Sciences, aka AIBS, owned published the scientific journal, bioscience since 1963. Bioscience publishes 12 subscription product taht is sold to over 3,000 instiutions a few hundred individual scientists, teachers students in the United States internationally.
$318,046 spent$413,648 earned by the program30% of program spendingCommunity Programs The AIBS Community Programs Division is home to AIBS Membership Services, science policy, communications programs. The leadership in biollogy initiatives, scientific programs, workshops, as well as education efforts, Uniting these connecting the division to other AIBS programmic areas with the common goal of supporting informed decision making that advances biology for the benefit of science society.
$24,544 spent$142,602 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,045,659.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $2.7M (−19%).
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: 2019 20% · 2020 20% · 2021 26% · 2022 18% · 2023 16% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Scott Glisson
Chief Executive Officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $53k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Institute of Biological Sciences Inc’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 Institute of Biological Sciences Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Institute of Biological Sciences Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc draws 62% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Institute of Biological Sciences Inc is better cushioned than half of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $365k on record.
- National Science Foundation$356k
- Department of Defense$9k
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 Institute of Biological Sciences 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% 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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc: 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 Institute of Biological Sciences Inc?
- American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $212,797 to it, the largest being GALACTOSEMIA FOUNDATION ($115,555). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $212,797 in grants to American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc?
- GALACTOSEMIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $115,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 7 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