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ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION

ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$973k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$1.6M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Association for Surgical Education does

Mission

To improve undergraduate surgical education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Annual meeting ( programs include small group discussions, formal scientific paper sessions, symposia, poster sessions and exhibits, and committee meetings including testing and research )

    $798,364 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $798,364.

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 ($484k) Expenses 100 ($405k) Net assets 100 ($880k)2018 Revenue 113 ($545k) Expenses 111 ($450k) Net assets 113 ($990k)2019 Revenue 122 ($590k) Expenses 142 ($575k) Net assets 116 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 57 ($278k) Expenses 89 ($361k) Net assets 108 ($950k)2021 Revenue 101 ($488k) Expenses 112 ($454k) Net assets 130 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 142 ($687k) Expenses 181 ($734k) Net assets 112 ($981k)2023 Revenue 169 ($818k) Expenses 185 ($751k) Net assets 127 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 184 ($890k) Expenses 192 ($779k) Net assets 149 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 201 ($973k) Expenses 205 ($832k) Net assets 178 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (205)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+25%).

$999k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.9M
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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

13% of ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 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.

$79k
’17
$95k
’18
$14k
’19
−$83k
’20
$34k
’21
−$47k
’22
$67k
’23
$111k
’24
$141k
’25
0.3
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed252523232322252832
Joined·+7+10+5+0+13+11+15+13
No longer listed·71250148129
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION’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.

Where its funders are

ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

MO

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

ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION?
ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,500 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION.
Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION?
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR SURGICAL EDUCATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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