Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,120,574 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($9,471,765). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $28M
What American Public Health Association does
Mission
To provide optimal, equitable health and well-being for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scientific and professional affairs - apha advanced public health sciences, policies, and practices through information, communication, and collaboration.
$9,746,232 spentof which $7,724,692 as grants45% of program spendingConvention - the annual exposition convened over 12,000 public health professionals representing over 80 disciplines in public health and related fields, working to improve the public's health.
$4,976,698 spent$6,559,752 earned by the program23% of program spendingPeriodicals - apha published several educational periodicals in the area of public health made available to members and the general public.
$3,126,920 spent$1,388,022 earned by the program15% of program spendingMembership services - apha represents a broad array of health professionals and others who care about their own health and the health of their communities.
$1,332,484 spent$3,241,643 earned by the program6% of program spendingBooks, government relations and affiliate affairs, and award programs
$2,369,439 spent$307,387 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,551,773.
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 $33M to $42M (+26%).
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 14% · 2018 17% · 2019 9% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% · 2024 26% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% 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
Georges C Benjamin Md Facp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $884k → $2.2M.
5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 60% · 2019 48% · 2020 37% · 2021 64% · 2022 57% · 2023 46% — 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
21% of AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.5M 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 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38.9M on record — $38.8M federal, $107k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$38.7M
- Department of Defense$4k
- Department of Agriculture$4k
- MA$88k
- VT$15k
- OR$4k
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 PUBLIC HEALTH 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 Washington, D.C.
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Apha LLC · disregarded
- Council on Education for Public Health · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH 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 PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION?
- AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,120,574 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($9,471,765). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $23,120,574 in grants to AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $9,471,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 38 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