Rhode Island · Nonprofit
AMERSA INC
AMERSA INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,310,348 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY INC ($1,217,773). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Amersa Inc does
Mission
Amersa Inc.'s mission is to improve health and well-being through interdisciplinary leadership in substance use education, research, clinical care and policy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Generated and disseminated state-of-the-art scientific information about substance use research, education and policy at its annual national conference.
$533,059 spentof which $1,000 as grants$544,302 earned by the program71% of program spendingOpioid response network: collaborating, advancing, responding, educating
$85,577 spent11% of program spendingGenerated and disseminated state-of-the-art scientific information about substance use, research, education and policy through the organization's peer-reviewed journal, substance abuse & addiction journal.
$50,537 spent$109,532 earned by the program7% of program spendingBhe-tac - provides deliverables on the topic of substance use care to support the work of behavioral health excellence technical assistance center grantees. Diversity fund - program provides scholarships for membership and conference attendance to ensure a comprehensive range of perspectives are involved in shaping content delivered by the organization.scholarship fund - program provides support for memberships and conference attendance for professionals who are not highly compensated.governance fund - program provides support for staff professional development marianne marcus fund - provides support for membership and conference attendance for emerging leaders in the field of addiction nursingrich saitz fund - provides conference stipends for health professionals presenting in the annual namesake endowed plenary session.wda program (nida ctn) provides workforce development opportunities for emerging leaders in the field of substance use care.sid schnoll award - provides support for early career investigators working in the interface between substance use and pain or substance use in the perinatal period or pregnancy.
$81,544 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $750,717.
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 2022 to 2023, from $944k to $1.2M (+30%).
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 32% · 2018 41% · 2019 35% · 2020 40% · 2021 50% · 2022 46% · 2023 35% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of AMERSA INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Rebecca Northup
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $52k → $218k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 AMERSA 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
AMERSA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 AMERSA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 91% · 2023 77% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of AMERSA INC's grant income comes from Rhode Island funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
AMERSA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AMERSA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $249k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$249k
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 AMERSA INC
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERSA INC: 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 AMERSA INC?
- AMERSA INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,310,348 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY INC ($1,217,773). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERSA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,310,348 in grants to AMERSA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERSA INC?
- AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,217,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERSA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 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