Texas · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,055 to it, the largest being ABELE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What International Society of Antique Scale Collectors does
Mission
To encourage the acquisition, preservation, exhibition, study and restoration of antique scales, weights and measures, including the promotion of educational opportunities and the dissemination of information.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Published quarterly journal & newsletter; provided research assistance; maintained website; preserved antique scales for the membership and the public; organized virtual meetings via zoom; and held annual in-person convention.
$53,142 spent$31,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,142.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $610k to $1.4M (+122%).
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.
42% of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $22.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS’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
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55 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.
Against its field
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 479 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS: 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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS?
- INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,055 to it, the largest being ABELE FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,055 in grants to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS?
- ABELE FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUE SCALE COLLECTORS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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