Illinois · Nonprofit
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 834 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,326,622 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($4,639,400). 406 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $119M
- Funders on record
- 834
- Grants received
- $55M
- Net assets
- $186M
What American Lung Association does
Mission
The American Lung Association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. We do this through education, advocacy, and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lung cancer, asthma, lung disease and tobacco control: as part of our mission, the American Lung Association is committed to supporting and improving the lives of the more than 35 million people living with lung disease - a leading cause of death in the united states. We do this by investing in research; advocating for policies and legislation that champion clean air, optimal care and reduced access to tobacco products; and providing programs, resources and support to help individuals living with lung disease and their families to better understand and manage their disease.in fiscal year 2025, the American Lung Association research institute invested $22 million in groundbreaking research, reinforcing our role as one of the nation's largest private funders of lung health studies. We expanded educational programs for patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers, and delivered targeted tobacco cessation initiatives, including efforts to prevent youth tobacco use and support cessation among teens and adults. Throughout the year, we also championed critical healthcare and clean air protections - advocating for medicaid preservation, policies and programs that limit pollution, and…
$54,897,785 spent$2,578,572 earned by the program55% of program spendingResearch: for more than a century, the American Lung Association has driven lung health advancements and innovation by supporting medical research that is helping people with lung disease live longer, healthier lives. In fiscal year 2025, the American Lung Association research institute continued to fund high-impact, lifesaving research, bringing together the best scientific minds to address critical lung health challenges. Our growing research investment - $225 million since 2000 - has made us one of the largest private funders of lung health research in the united states. In september, our research awards included 139 grants to promising and established scientists working on solutions and treatments for a broad range of lung health challenges, including the link between obesity and severe respiratory disease, the role of inflammation in pulmonary fibrosis, and new targeted lung cancer treatments. Each year, our research investment also supports our airways clinical research centers network, the largest nonprofit clinical research network providing asthma and copd clinical trials at prominent academic medical centers, as well as innovative industry and nonprofit partnerships to…
$21,514,470 spentof which $12,872,936 as grants$1,011,090 earned by the program22% of program spendingAdvocacy and environmental:each year, the American Lung Association supports policies and legislation that help everyone breathe easier. This includes advocating for laws that protect our children from deadly air pollution and tobacco products, and providing funding for critical lung disease research, healthcare coverage, and tobacco cessation, asthma and other vital health programs.in fiscal year 2025, we fought vigorously to preserve lifesaving federal funding for medicaid, along with tax credits and other programs providing coverage for more than 11 million individuals - all threatened under a proposed bill, which is now law. We also advocated against proposed cuts in program staff and spending that support lung health.our advocacy efforts helped to preserve healthcare coverage for preventative care, including lung cancer screening; the reintroduction of the soar act to provide equitable access to portable oxygen, allowing people to live more active lives; and a supreme court ruling in favor of the food and drug administration prohibiting tobacco companies from employing specific marketing strategies to promote certain e-cigarette products. In fiscal year 2025, we hosted two…
$22,633,242 spent$1,063,668 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,045,497.
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 2017 to 2018, from $50M to $204M (+311%).
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 2% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 28% · 2024 30% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Harold Wimmer
President & CEO
Board chair
David G Hill Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 147 funders to 277 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $9.9M.
75 of 834 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100 from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Nbi Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 834 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 LUNG ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
71% 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 LUNG ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 18% · 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 11% · 2023 18% — 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
35% of AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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 LUNG ASSOCIATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 50 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 32 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 LUNG ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.8M on record — $62.6M federal, $10.2M state.
- Environmental Protection Agency$39.6M
- Department of Energy$14.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.9M
- Department of Defense$20k
- DE$6.8M
- NJ$2.9M
- VT$282k
- OR$250k
- OK$12k
- FL$11k
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 LUNG ASSOCIATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: 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 LUNG ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 834 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,326,622 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ($4,639,400). 406 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 834 organizations giving $55,326,622 in grants to AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION, 406 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION?
- UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,639,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 834 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