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AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC

AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,114 to it, the largest being THE SOCIETY OF UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$19M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$95k
Net assets
$12M
0/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What American Urological Association Inc does

Mission

Mission: promote the highest standards of urological clinical care through education, research, and the formulation of health care policy.vision: to be the premier professional association for the advancement of professional urologic patient care.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The governance, advocacy and policy division is comprised of multiple departments spanning the aua, inc. And the auaer. The governance department of the aua sits within auaer and provides services to all committees, boards, and editorial panels of the aua, auaer, and ucf. These services are provided by the committee and society affairs (csa) team and, in 2025, csa appointed over 600 physician volunteers. Csa also is responsible for maintaining bidirectional communication with aua's eight sections and serves as the liaison with subspecialty and other medical specialty societies. In 2025, csa successfully conducted searches for and executed the appointments process for the aua secretary-elect, auaer education committee chair, auaer research committee chair, and auaer science & quality council chair, and filled auapac board vacancies. Csa also manages the awards and physician recognition programs and in 2025 led the selection of all aua awards presented at the 2025 annual meeting. The governance department of the aua also includes the legal team, which represents and provides counsel to the aua and its affiliated entities in all legal matters, maintains the entities' bylaws and…

  2. Membership: the aua is a global membership organization with more than 25,000 members from over 100 countries worldwide. Through its leadership, the aua unites the global urologic community to advance urologic patient care around through world through education, research, and the formulation of health care policy. Aua members span the urologic care team, and the geographic breadth of aua's membership fosters strong relationships and an exchange of knowledge between urology professionals around the world. In 2025, the aua welcomed 4,300 new members across all membership categories.

  3. Annual meeting: annually, the aua holds a conference focused on cutting-edge science and groundbreaking research in urologic medicine. Attracting more than 15,000 urologists, research scientists, and medical professionals in urology and clinical care, the meeting provides educational sessions on advancements in urologic research and is vital to the development of attendees' skills and knowledge. In 2025, the aua was successfully held in las vegas as an in-person meeting with a virtual component, expanding the reach of the educational content presented in the building through streamed presentations of key content. The meeting included plenary presentations, industry clinical updates showcasing advancements and innovations in laboratory equipment, pharmaceutical products, and diagnostic tools, instructional courses, and abstract presentations.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($12M) Net assets 100 ($495k)2018 Revenue 104 ($13M) Expenses 102 ($12M) Net assets 249 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 101 ($13M) Expenses 102 ($12M) Net assets 307 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 75 ($9.4M) Expenses 68 ($8.2M) Net assets 536 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 67 ($8.4M) Expenses 72 ($8.7M) Net assets 484 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 111 ($14M) Expenses 92 ($11M) Net assets 1045 ($5.2M)2023 Revenue 116 ($15M) Expenses 121 ($15M) Net assets 1025 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 127 ($16M) Expenses 110 ($13M) Net assets 1556 ($7.7M)2025 Revenue 151 ($19M) Expenses 122 ($15M) Net assets 2386 ($12M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (122)Net assets (2386)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $27M (+34%).

$8.1M
$9.7M
$9.8M
$10M
$12M
$15M
$15M
$20M
$27M
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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

0% of AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 696 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$425k
’17
$737k
’18
$290k
’19
$1.1M
’20
−$256k
’21
$2.8M
’22
−$101k
’23
$2.6M
’24
$4.1M
’25
18
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.

Chief executive

Michael T Sheppard

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed252726242524282829
Joined·+7+6+5+5+4+8+7+6
No longer listed·57745475
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $9k → $26k.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 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 UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% 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 UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC.

32%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 68% · 2022 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 UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.

IL
MA
VA
TN

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

’21
’22
Maryland 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

Against its field

AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · top quartile
Months of reserve18.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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In Maryland

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
62%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MD

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • American Urological Association Education and Research Inc · exempt
  • Urology Care Foundation Inc · exempt
  • American Urological Association Inc Political Action Committee · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC?
AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $95,114 to it, the largest being THE SOCIETY OF UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $95,114 in grants to AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION INC?
THE SOCIETY OF UROLOGIC ONCOLOGY is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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