Maryland · Nonprofit
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,689,600 to it, the largest being Avenir Foundation Inc ($5,250,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 149 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 149 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- Council of Medical Specialty Societiesportfolio match
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $137k → $42k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PHYSICS 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 PHYSICS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 61% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 79% · 2021 51% · 2022 77% · 2023 50% — 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
36% of AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
- Council of Medical Specialty Societiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountantsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Electric Power Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Institute for Health Care Mgmt Research & Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $1.6M federal, $164k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$636k
- Department of Defense$292k
- Department of Energy$227k
- Department of Commerce$209k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$145k
- National Science Foundation$51k
- OK$163k
- NJ$2k
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 PHYSICS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Aip Publishing LLC · disregarded
- American Center for Physics · exempt
- AIP Foundation · exempt
- New Crystallography Journal · partnership
- AIP Global Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC?
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC (Maryland) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,689,600 to it, the largest being Avenir Foundation Inc ($5,250,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $6,689,600 in grants to AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC?
- Avenir Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC 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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing