Skip to content

California · Nonprofit

ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION

ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,162 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$238k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$2.3M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Association for Academic Surgery Foundation does

Mission

To foster and advance the educational and scientific research activities of the association for academic surgery thereby enhancing the quality of care and to generally support education and scientific research concerning surgery and surgical care.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. To support medical/surgical research and grants.

    $86,356 spentof which $86,356 as grants
    81% of program spending
  2. To promote the scientific field through a series of awards for presentations, manuscripts, outstanding medical students and research.

    $19,901 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $106,257.

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 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($959k)2018 Revenue 168 ($271k) Expenses 130 ($120k) Net assets 108 ($1.0M)2019 Revenue 216 ($349k) Expenses 133 ($123k) Net assets 148 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 25 ($41k) Expenses 177 ($164k) Net assets 142 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 70 ($113k) Expenses 171 ($159k) Net assets 156 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 241 ($389k) Expenses 171 ($158k) Net assets 157 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 226 ($365k) Expenses 140 ($130k) Net assets 212 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 147 ($238k) Expenses 343 ($318k) Net assets 243 ($2.3M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (147)Expenses (343)Net assets (243)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 $1.6M to $2.0M (+31%).

$959k
$1.0M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$2.0M
$2.4M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
’17
$150k
’18
$226k
’19
−$123k
’20
−$46k
’21
$231k
’22
$235k
’23
−$80k
’24
0.1
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1416161616171515
Joined·+3+3+0+3+7+0+1
No longer listed·1303621
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $52.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $904k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Association for Academic Surgery). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION’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

ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

50% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

50% of ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.

DC

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

’21
’22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−34% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

50%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Association for Academic Surgery · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION?
ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,162 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,162 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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