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Illinois State Medical Society
Illinois State Medical Society (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($66,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What Illinois State Medical Society does
Mission
The Illinois State Medical Society is a professional organization that represents and unifies its physician members as they practice the science and art of medicine. The society represents the interests of member physicians, advocates for patients and promotes the doctor/patient relationship, the ethical practice of medicine, and the betterment of the public health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The isms governmental affairs team represented the interests of physician members in the state capital and with the illinois congressional delegation. In springfield, isms worked to preserve and enhance the practice of medicine by advocating for high standards of licensing for physicians and allied health professionals, and for measures to protect the public health and preserve physician autonomy in clinical decision-making. Isms also advocated for enhanced access to health care through public and private programs of insurance. Through the reality medicine public awareness initiative, isms continued to highlight the impact of medical liability issues on patient access to health care in illinois.
The isms division of health policy research and advocacy fielded hundreds of member calls for assistance in 2023. It reviewed and analyzed scores of health care reform proposals and state legislative bills and worked to voice physicians policy concerns before state government and private sector entities. Isms devoted significant educational resources to assist physicians in transitioning to use of electronic medical records and related technology issues. The division produced a variety of publications, educational brochures and webinars.
The membership and marketing team is responsible for the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of a strong physician membership. This is crititcal to supporting key advocacy activities of isms and the respect and credibility accorded to it as the only organization representing physicians of all medical specialties in illinois. Marketing activities both statewide and at the local level, include but are not limited to: focused outreach and marketing programs to physicians as well as their professional office staff, development of the partners in practice series of marketing materials focusing on specific demographics, expanded membership benefits programs, streamlining of membership application and renewal processes, development and implementation of effective peer-to-peer marketing tools, and enhancement of its physician database.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $11M to $9.7M (−10%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 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
Alexander R Lerner
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $182k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Educational and Scientific Foundation of the Illinois State Medical Society). These are real filings, and they are not money Illinois State Medical Society raised.
From the IRS filings of Illinois State Medical Society’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
100% of Illinois State Medical Society's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
Organizations like Illinois State Medical Society
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Educational and Scientific Foundation of the Illinois State Medical Society · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Illinois State Medical Society: 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 Illinois State Medical Society?
- Illinois State Medical Society (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $66,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($66,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Illinois State Medical Society have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $66,000 in grants to Illinois State Medical Society.
- Who is the largest funder of Illinois State Medical Society?
- AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Illinois State Medical Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing