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FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (Maryland) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,236 to it, the largest being Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $707k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology does
Mission
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (faseb) advances health and welfare by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to its member societies and collaborative advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Science research conferences - the faseb science research conferences are a series of scientific conferences that promote dialogue among researchers, many of whom are individual members of faseb member societies, in the biological and biomedical sciences to spur innovation and exchange knowledge.
$6,101,030 spentof which $1,993,601 as grants$4,800,729 earned by the program58% of program spendingCore functions - legislative affairs and science policy activities within the office of public affairs (opa) support the federation's core competency, advancing research funding and policies that stimulate the biological and biomedical sciences. Through opa's in-depth policy analyses, development and execution of legislative strategies, and communication and support for all faseb public policy initiatives, core functions provide the most direct benefit to member societies and their individual members.
$1,798,362 spent$626,326 earned by the program17% of program spendingFaseb journals - the faseb journal and faseb bioadvances, faseb's flagship journals, feature transdisciplinary original research that supports the federation's strategic goal to promote scientific progress and education in the biosciences.
$1,186,944 spentof which $220,334 as grants$2,396,952 earned by the program11% of program spendingManagement support services - tailored management services are provided to help meet the precise needs of scientific societies, from their day-to-day administration to long-term planning, as well as meet the federation's strategic goal of helping to facilitate the missions of scientific societies.
$713,350 spentof which $24,212 as grants7% of program spendingDiversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (deai) program - provides a suite of opportunities for working scientists throughout the life sciences. Using a unique, multifaceted approach, faseb's deai program seeks to build representative leadership, foster work environments where researchers can bring their whole selves, and engage with diverse communities across the life sciences. The deai program consists of four opportunities: cares, lead, seed, and friends. Cares helps alleviate financial burdens associated with caregiving, allowing members to pursue critical professional development opportunities. Lead is a reverse mentoring program that pairs an early-career mentor with a senior-level mentee to foster exchange of different perspectives of individual, group, and broader cultural views. Seed is a cohort program focused on developing skills critical to helping participants navigate key educational and professional transitions.
$381,466 spentof which $50,000 as grants4% of program spendingDataworks! - is an initiative that brings the biological and biomedical research communities together to advance human health through data sharing and reuse. Dataworks! Features four components to foster this culture change. Dataworks! Salons provide conversation spaces for biological and biomedical researchers to exchange ideas and design effective practices for data sharing and reuse. The dataworks! Prize recognizes research teams for their efforts integrating data sharing and reuse to advance human health and discovery. Dataworks! Community enables individual researchers and research teams to hone skills and mentor peers in data management and sharing, while the dataworks! Help desk provides guidance to for the research community to navigate and adopt data sharing and reuse policies and practices.
$368,007 spent3% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,549,159.
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 $24M to $20M (−17%).
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 9% · 2018 7% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 14% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $78k → $20k.
5 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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 SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 90% · 2019 48% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 50% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 14% 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 SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.3M
- National Science Foundation$835k
- Department of Agriculture$308k
- Department of Defense$10k
- Environmental Protection Agency$5k
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 SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY?
- FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (Maryland) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $707,236 to it, the largest being Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy ($250,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $707,236 in grants to FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY?
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 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.
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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 29 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