Maryland · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC
ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,476,429 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ($1,096,913). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $142M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Association of Public Health Laboratories Inc does
Mission
Shape national and global health outcomes by promoting the value and contributions of public health laboratories and continuously improving the public health laboratory system and practice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In august of 2024 one of aphl's hrsa cooperative agreements for improving timeliness of newborn screening diagnosis (quality improvement) ended. Also, the mozambique pepfar cooperative agreement ended in september 2024.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Enhancing public health laboratory capabilities & increasing capacity (ecic) from july 1, 2020 through june 30, 2025 funded through the centers for disease control & prevention. The association of public health laboratories, inc. (aphl) strengthens the public health laboratory system by promoting quality public health practice, improving the public health infrastructure, and strengthening the public health laboratory system in developing a well-trained workforce. Aphl also works to address leadership and other issues as it relates to staffing in the highest levels of public health laboratories. This program also ensures that aphl can serve as the clearinghouse of information by, about, and for the public health laboratories.
$99,693,557 spentof which $19,858,246 as grants$15,416 earned by the program79% of program spendingGlobal health:in september 2020, aphl received the global health security partnerships: expanding and improving public health laboratory strategies and systems cooperative agreement for protecting and improving health globally: building and strengthening public health impact, systems, capacity and security. Aphl also has a cooperative agreement to support the achievement of the global health security (ghs) targets in kenya that focus on protecting and improving health globally through regional, national, and local partnerships. Also, we continue to receive pepfar funding for only select countries: mozambique & ghana. In september of 2023 aphl received the grant for supporting continuous quality improvement, partnerships, and innovation for sustained and responsive laboratory systems, tiered diagnostic networks, and laboratory data management under pepfar. This cooperative agreement is to build upon activities to ensure access to quality-assured conventional and poc hiv-related laboratory and diagnostic services, emphasizing laboratory informatics/data systems and cqi approaches for poc testing sites, laboratories, the clinic-laboratory interface, and across integrated national…
$15,938,578 spentof which $63,510 as grants13% of program spendingOther federal awards:the health resources and services administration (hrsa) cooperative agreements to aphl supports the newborn screening technical assistance and evaluation program, a national newborn screening resource center designed to provide data, technical assistance, and training to newborn screening programs and assist states with quality improvement initiatives. It functions with the goal of improving outcomes for newborns by facilitating newborn screening initiatives and programmatic outcomes to improve the overall quality of the newborn screening system.the food and drug administration (fda) cooperative agreements to aphl works to continue building competency-based integrated training for regulatory laboratory scientists, workshops, and educational resources to laboratories seeking iso/iec 17025 accreditation, support fda's genometrakr network, and improve the sharing of food testing data via fda's elexnet platform.
$4,194,839 spentof which $720,268 as grants$80,100 earned by the program3% of program spendingConferences and training
$1,366,452 spent$1,634,084 earned by the program1% of program spendingMembership and corporate sponsorship
$562,539 spent$1,175,321 earned by the program0% of program spendingPublic information
$84,183 spent0% of program spendingOther programs
$5,128,074 spent$5,094,891 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $126,968,222.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $22M to $32M (+43%).
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 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 85% · 2021 83% · 2022 87% · 2023 93% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Scott Becker
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $102k → $684k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC’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 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $460k 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.
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $294k on record.
- MA$175k
- OR$119k
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 PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC
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 Maryland
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Datapult LLC · disregarded
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Tanzania · exempt
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Ghana · exempt
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Kenya · exempt
- Association of Public Health Laboratories Zambia · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,476,429 to it, the largest being NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ($1,096,913). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $3,476,429 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC?
- NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,096,913 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 7 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