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AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC

AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,105 to it, the largest being LINCOLN ELECTRIC FDN PFDN ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$47M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$198k
Net assets
$158M
1/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What American Welding Society Inc does

Mission

To promote education and research activities related to welding.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Educational services and certification - provided seminars, documents and home-study courses on welding topics and certified welding instructors upon meeting minimum work requirements and passing a comprehensive examination.

    $9,775,748 spent$20,112,051 earned by the program
    26% of program spending
  2. Membership and publications - approximately 63,823 members received "welding journal."

    $4,221,529 spent$4,347,226 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Standards development - provided technical documents for industry codes, standards, methods and safety, free consultation on documents sold is available on a limited basis.

    $2,472,049 spent$10,104,205 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  4. Marketing and corporate communication, international activities, board approved programs, welding equipment manufacturers committee, resistance welding manufacturing alliance and international thermal spray association. Various programs related to the promotion of welding.

    $20,621,667 spentof which $6,743,000 as grants$3,106,943 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  5. Exposition - annual assembly of welding product exhibitions (approximately 1,531) and registration of attendees (approximately 29,741).

    $935,472 spent$5,293,930 earned by the program
    2% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,026,465.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($43M) Expenses 100 ($32M) Net assets 100 ($89M)2019 Revenue 103 ($44M) Expenses 97 ($31M) Net assets 119 ($106M)2020 Revenue 86 ($37M) Expenses 83 ($27M) Net assets 142 ($126M)2021 Revenue 98 ($42M) Expenses 87 ($28M) Net assets 158 ($140M)2022 Revenue 97 ($42M) Expenses 95 ($31M) Net assets 139 ($123M)2023 Revenue 106 ($45M) Expenses 124 ($40M) Net assets 161 ($143M)2024 Revenue 109 ($47M) Expenses 133 ($43M) Net assets 178 ($158M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (109)Expenses (133)Net assets (178)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 2022 to 2023, from $132M to $152M (+16%).

$96M
$114M
$133M
$148M
$132M
$152M
$167M
2018201920202021202220232024
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY 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. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$11M
’18
$12M
’19
$10.0M
’20
$14M
’21
$11M
’22
$5.3M
’23
$4.0M
’24
1.2
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed45464646444245
Joined·+8+9+5+8+8+9
No longer listed·79510106
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $73k → $23.

6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 WELDING SOCIETY 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 WELDING SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

66% 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 WELDING SOCIETY INC.

30%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2019 70% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 99% · 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.

How long its funders stay

11% of AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 7% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 WELDING SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 8 states in all.

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IL
WI
MI
MA
IN
OH
DC

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

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’19
’21
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 659 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record — $4k federal, $76k state.

Federal$4k
grants $0contracts $4k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$4k
  • Department of Justice$895
State$76k
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By state
  • OR$35k
  • NJ$22k
  • DE$12k
  • VT$3k
  • FL$3k
  • OK$528

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 WELDING SOCIETY INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

35
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

FL

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Weldmex LLC · disregarded
  • 8669 Doral LLC · disregarded
  • Weldmex - Aws S de Rl de Cv · disregarded
  • Aws Foundation Incorporated · exempt
  • Aws Asia Limited · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC?
AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $198,105 to it, the largest being LINCOLN ELECTRIC FDN PFDN ($60,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $198,105 in grants to AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC?
LINCOLN ELECTRIC FDN PFDN is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 14 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