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CASSS

CASSS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIAL CONVENTION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.0M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$2.9M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Casss does

Mission

Casss sponsors international symposia for scientists in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and academic arenas. Furthermore, Casss provides educational, employment, and networking opportunities for its current members.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Scientific conferences and meetings are designed and coordinated for industry and regulatory professionals, academic researchers and students to discuss and disseminate valuable technical data related to biopharmaceutical development and regulation.

  2. The organization maintains a web site for its members that provides digital videos, white papers and other information regarding latest trends and best practices in the field of biopharmaceutical development and regulation, upcoming scientific events and association news.

  3. For selected phd candidates and post-doctoral students and early-career professionals, the society waives registration fees to participate in the conferences and present their research work at the society's scientific conferences.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.9M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 111 ($4.3M) Expenses 110 ($3.9M) Net assets 114 ($3.2M)2019 Revenue 125 ($4.8M) Expenses 136 ($4.8M) Net assets 118 ($3.3M)2020 Revenue 113 ($4.4M) Expenses 109 ($3.9M) Net assets 135 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 65 ($2.5M) Expenses 66 ($2.3M) Net assets 153 ($4.3M)2022 Revenue 82 ($3.2M) Expenses 104 ($3.7M) Net assets 118 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 134 ($5.2M) Expenses 153 ($5.4M) Net assets 114 ($3.2M)2024 Revenue 121 ($4.7M) Expenses 141 ($5.0M) Net assets 112 ($3.1M)2025 Revenue 129 ($5.0M) Expenses 152 ($5.4M) Net assets 105 ($2.9M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (152)Net assets (105)

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 $5.2M to $4.5M (−13%).

$3.6M
$4.1M
$4.2M
$4.6M
$5.2M
$4.5M
$4.7M
$4.5M
$4.3M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$332k
’17
$416k
’18
$20k
’19
$512k
’20
$175k
’21
−$497k
’22
−$199k
’23
−$284k
’24
−$388k
’25
1.4
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.

Chief executive

Dave Bergeson

Executive director and CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed181719171819171518
Joined·+2+2+1+2+2+1+7+5
No longer listed·30311392
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CASSS’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

CASSS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

MD

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

Government funding CASSS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33k on record.

Federal$33k
grants $0contracts $33k
Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$33k

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 CASSS

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds CASSS?
CASSS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,000 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIAL CONVENTION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CASSS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,000 in grants to CASSS.
Who is the largest funder of CASSS?
UNITED STATES PHARMACOPEIAL CONVENTION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CASSS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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