Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,404,891 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,719,368). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $354M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $460M
What Association of American Medical Colleges does
Mission
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Integrated services: this cluster coordinates the association's application and testing service programs provided for the benefit of member institutions and the collection and analysis of data that support policy research in medical education. Service programs include the american medical college application services, the medical college admission test, the electronic residency application service and the visiting student application service.
$115,235,155 spent$221,258,399 earned by the program47% of program spendingPolicy, strategy, and outreach: this cluster helps members in matters related to visiting student application service, governmental relations, and communications. The governmental relations unit assists the association's members and constituents by monitoring legislation and regulations that affect academic medicine, medical research and patient care, as well as advising members on involvement in legislative activity and participating in coalitions with other members of the academic and scientific communities. The communications unit develops information, educational programs, and publications for members, the public and the media. While advancing the association's position on important issues, this unit builds and supports coalitions to enhance communication of important messages to targeted audiences.
$28,536,827 spent12% of program spendingMember learning and engagement: maintains the association's membership and constituent database, plans and provides logistical support for meetings and conferences, operates the association's reference center and archives, and manages publications ordering and fulfillment.
$41,682,141 spent$55,749,895 earned by the program17% of program spendingAcademic affairs: this cluster helps member institutions improve the education of physicians across the continuum of their careers enabling them to better meet the changing needs of the public. Programs include medical education, graduate medical education, medical school affairs and accreditation.healthcare affairs: this cluster develops programs and services to help support member institutions focus on the interface between healthcare delivery system and academic medicine, paying particular attention to how healthcare in academic settings can address quality of care and patient-centered care.community, opportunity and engagement: this unit leads efforts to help our members advance health equity in patient care, education and research through the organizations vision by cultivating environments that support community building, access to opportunity and relationship-centered engagement. Programs include research and professional development to increase under-represented minorities in academic medicine.scientific affairs: this cluster works to ensure an environment in which biomedical and behavioral research can flourish. The supply of scientific manpower, funding for research,…
$62,346,149 spentof which $1,098,713 as grants25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $247,800,272.
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 2020 to 2021, from $532M to $632M (+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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Julie A Freischlag Md
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $231k → $103k.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES’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 OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 58% · 2023 68% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 20% give in more than one year at all.
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
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.7M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$937k
- Department of Defense$834k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$422k
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Assoc of Academic Health Centers Intl · disregarded
- Center for Education and Medicine Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES?
- ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,404,891 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($1,719,368). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,404,891 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,719,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 15 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