Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS
ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $978,428 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($709,042). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $978k
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Association of Food and Drug Officials does
Mission
Afdo strives to protect public health and safety by working collaboratively with public and private sectors advocating with a unified voice to make a positive impact on food and medical product safety laws, rules, regulations, and regulatory programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Afdo's annual educational conference provides food safety training and professional development for food regulatory officials through educational sessions and collaboration focused on protecting public health. Afdo further hosts in conjunction with raps events related to medical products including medical devices and combination products. These conference focus on quality and regulatory compliance of those products.
$1,020,547 spent$1,429,835 earned by the program8% of program spendingAfdo supports state, local, tribal, and territorial food safety regulatory programs by administering federally funded projects that strengthen regulatory capacity, training, and program quality. This work includes managing shared information technology systems and hosting governmentsponsored meetings and events focused on improving program performance, enhancing foodborne illness and emergency response, and advancing national food safety priorities.
$12,244,196 spent$668,398 earned by the program92% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,264,743.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.8M to $4.3M (+54%).
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 74% · 2018 71% · 2019 79% · 2020 86% · 2021 87% · 2022 88% · 2023 87% · 2024 89% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Steven Mandernach
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $270k → $179k.
1 of 4 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 OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS’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 FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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 OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39 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 OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS has grown faster than half of the 132 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $81.9M on record — $81.9M federal, $47k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$81.0M
- Department of Agriculture$860k
- OR$21k
- VT$21k
- NJ$4k
- DE$1k
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 FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS: 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 OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS?
- ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $978,428 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ($709,042). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $978,428 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS?
- NATIONAL ASSN OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF AGRICULTURE RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $709,042 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF FOOD AND DRUG OFFICIALS 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.
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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 4 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