Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Association for Iron and Steel Technology
Association for Iron and Steel Technology (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,408,202 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING METALLURGICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS INC ($729,077). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $29M
What Association for Iron and Steel Technology does
Mission
To advance the technical development, production, processing, and application of iron and steel.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Publications including a monthly journal entitled "Iron & Steel Technology" as well as conference proceedings, technical books and reports, industry directory, statistics, and reprints related to iron and steel.
$2,066,470 spent$135,430 earned by the program14% of program spendingMeetings and conferences including fundamental educational courses, advanced symposia, regional forums, technical sessions, and exhibitions related to iron and steel.
$9,020,093 spent$11,857,597 earned by the program61% of program spendingMembership services to provide individual professional and student members with up-to-date industry information including, fundamental training, continuing education, advanced symposia, philanthropic initiatives, regional programming and related news to iron and steel.
$1,998,052 spent$1,363,280 earned by the program14% of program spendingGrants to the AIST Foundation for faculty programs and scholarships to students majoring in engineering and related sciences.
$1,612,480 spentof which $1,612,480 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,697,095.
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 2023 to 2024, from $29M to $35M (+19%).
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: 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Association for Iron and Steel Technology’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Ronald E Ashburn
Secretary/Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $156k → $456k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Association for Iron and Steel Technology’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 Iron and Steel Technology leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 Iron and Steel Technology.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 91% — 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
Association for Iron and Steel Technology draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Association for Iron and Steel Technology's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Association for Iron and Steel Technology receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $306k on record.
- Department of Commerce$306k
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 Association for Iron and Steel Technology
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- AIST Foundation · exempt
- American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Association for Iron and Steel Technology: 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 Association for Iron and Steel Technology?
- Association for Iron and Steel Technology (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,408,202 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING METALLURGICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS INC ($729,077). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Association for Iron and Steel Technology have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,408,202 in grants to Association for Iron and Steel Technology, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Association for Iron and Steel Technology?
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING METALLURGICAL AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $729,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Association for Iron and Steel Technology find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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