Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,474,148 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($18,437,093). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $80M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Federation of American Scientists does
Mission
Federation of American Scientists (fas) is a nonpartisan organization located in the district of columbia. Fas embeds science, technology, innovation, and experience into government and public discourse in order to build a healthy, safe, prosperous, and equitable society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fiscal sponsorships (formerly known as special projects): a home for initiatives that bring science and technology to bear on critical policy challenges. The program is designed to address a continuing long-term challenge: ensuring that high impact science and technology projects for the public good have the operational infrastructure, financial sustainability, and strategic support they need to launch quickly, operate responsibly, and demonstrate measurable public benefit. In fy2025, fas accepted tax-deductible contributions on behalf of sponsored nine projects and provided financial oversight, compliance, and administrative infrastructure including supporting the alliance for learning innovation (ali) as it developed an independent operating model, supported by six philanthropies.
$13,188,771 spent41% of program spendingTalent initiatives: fellowship programs that cultivate policy entrepreneurship skills among scientific and technical (s&t) talent and deploy experts into public service to make progress on the most important s&t challenges of our time. In fy2025, fas continued to manage fellowships across the federal government, including at the us department of agriculture where fellows bridged the gaps between policy design and practical implementation, particularly for rural and tribal farming communities. Additionally, fas expanded the talent initiatives program to provide fellowships into civil society organizations supporting 10 fellows working on energy affordability, digital transformation in government, federal data infrastructure, and more.
$11,226,168 spent35% of program spendingScience policy entrepreneurship and day one project: a platform for shaping public policy that democratizes the policy process by supporting individuals across the science and technology ecosystem with promising ideas and turning them into actionable policy. In fy2025, fas hosted the day one 2025 summit, a culmination of a year-long policy sprint that created more than 200 nonpartisan, implementation ready policy proposals for a new administration spanning a broad range of science and technology domains. This summit showcased the proposals, convening more than 130 participants, and laid the groundwork for the newly-launched the center for regulatory ingenuity (cri), a new hub dedicated to applying the insights of the government capacity movement to specific, thorny problems that require a fundamental reimagining of regulation and governance.
$2,365,161 spentof which $11,250 as grants7% of program spendingResearch, policy, and technical assistance: across a wide range of policy domains with a science and technology dimension, fas a) produces rigorous, nonpartisan research and analysis that inform both policymakers and public discourse, b) generates policy proposals to inform government agenda-setting, and c) provides technical assistance to policymakers seeking to act on our insights and ideas.additionally in fy2025, fas expanded beyond federal research and policy analysis by acquiring metrolab network, an organization with significant reach at the state and local levels, giving fas the capability to provide research, policy analysis, and technical assistance to state and local governments.
$5,435,380 spentof which $218,335 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $32,215,480.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $8.2M to $35M (+330%).
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: 2021 8% · 2024 14% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Daniel Correa
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Gilman Louie
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $389k → $13M.
13 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 funders by total. 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
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 96% · 2019 38% · 2020 60% · 2021 52% · 2022 55% · 2023 14% — 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
39% of FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 190 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 190 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Transportation$1.8M
- National Science Foundation$520k
- Department of Defense$204k
- Department of State$175k
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 FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS?
- FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,474,148 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($18,437,093). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $80,474,148 in grants to FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $18,437,093 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 82 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing