Maryland · Nonprofit
AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $88 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($88). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $88
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What American Medical Writers Association does
Mission
To advance excellence in medical communication by providing educational resources and an inclusive professional community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Conference & education.annual conference: amwa's annual medical writing & communication conference features various session formats, expert speakers, presentations on timely topics, and a host of networking events.online education: our focused approach to adding online educational activities is based on amwa's content strategy and learner-centered curriculum that aligns with members' professional focus areas ensuring the relevancy of content. Amwa offers more than 140 educational activities in the online learning catalog, including interactive educational programs. Amwa's live webinars continually feed the catalog, as the webinars are archived and made available as on-demand videos
$1,116,546 spent$1,151,464 earned by the program61% of program spendingMembership: amwa is the leading professional organization for writers, editors, and other communicators of medical information. With approximately 5,000 members in the us, canada, and 30 other countries, amwa members work on staff or as freelances for a wide range of businesses and organizations. Amwa members are committed to accurately and ethically making information about health and medicine clear and meaningful. The extensive member benefits include access to an online community, amwa member directory, amwa update and medcomm electronic newsletters, chapters, and the peer reviewed quarterly amwa journal.
$522,826 spent$732,012 earned by the program29% of program spendingPublications: the amwa journal is a nationally circulated, peer-reviewed publication of the American Medical Writers Association that aims to be the authoritative, comprehensive source of information about knowledge, skills, and opportunities in the field of medical communication worldwide. This includes medical writers, editors, visual communicators, marketers, health communicators, cme professionals, grant writers, and other professionals working with the field. In support of the mission of the American Medical Writers Association (amwa), the amwa journal works to advance the broader profession through the publication of content that reflects the interests, concerns, and expertise of medical communicators. Its purpose is to inform, inspire, and motivate medical communicators.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther programs include career services and certification program.
$181,191 spent$57,539 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,820,563.
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 $3.2M to $4.1M (+31%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Susan Krug Ms Cae
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $23.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION’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
100% of AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 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 MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS 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 Maryland
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
91%
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 MEDICAL WRITERS 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 MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $88 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($88). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $88 in grants to AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $88 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN MEDICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 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