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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,487 to it, the largest being MUSCULOSKELETAL TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$30M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$381k
Net assets
$47M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What American Society of Plastic Surgeons does

Mission

Asps promotes the highest standards in advocacy, research, education, patient safety, and ethical standards for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To provide an annual conference devoted to sharing innovative plastic surgery techniques, technologies, procedures, and industry best practices.

  2. To support its members in their efforts to provide the highest quality patient care and maintain professional and ethical standards through ongoing educational programs.

  3. To research and report on developments in government health care policy and regulation, to coordinate a comprehensive multi-specialty survey of america's plastic surgeon practices, to identify key emerging issues in plastic surgery, and to report on findings through industry-wide publications and press releases.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($25M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($20M)2018 Revenue 110 ($28M) Expenses 112 ($25M) Net assets 108 ($22M)2019 Revenue 115 ($29M) Expenses 120 ($26M) Net assets 111 ($22M)2020 Revenue 111 ($28M) Expenses 114 ($25M) Net assets 117 ($24M)2021 Revenue 104 ($26M) Expenses 93 ($20M) Net assets 175 ($35M)2022 Revenue 116 ($29M) Expenses 110 ($24M) Net assets 166 ($33M)2023 Revenue 119 ($30M) Expenses 125 ($27M) Net assets 185 ($37M)2024 Revenue 121 ($30M) Expenses 124 ($27M) Net assets 209 ($42M)2025 Revenue 120 ($30M) Expenses 122 ($27M) Net assets 231 ($47M)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (122)Net assets (231)

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 $36M to $48M (+34%).

$31M
$36M
$36M
$36M
$48M
$47M
$51M
$55M
$58M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$3.0M
’17
$2.9M
’18
$2.4M
’19
$2.7M
’20
$5.7M
’21
$5.0M
’22
$2.4M
’23
$3.2M
’24
$3.2M
’25
6.0
months of
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.

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Listed363743484648534432
Joined·+12+12+13+11+13+15+4+3
No longer listed·11681311101315
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $15k.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS’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 SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS.

52%
largest funder
93%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 65% · 2019 87% · 2020 98% · 2021 58% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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 SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 3 states in all.

NY
NJ
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

16
board members
81%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Plastic Surgery Foundation · exempt
  • Plastic Surgery Practice Solutions · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS?
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,487 to it, the largest being MUSCULOSKELETAL TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $381,487 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS?
MUSCULOSKELETAL TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS 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 5 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