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MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$548k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$749k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Medical Society of the District of Colum does

Mission

Medical Society of the District of Columbia (msdc) was formed by an act of congress for purposes adjudged most conducive to promoting and disseminating medical and surgical knowledge. The organization dedicates its effort to the well-being of physicians (see schedule o)

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Communications - develops strategies to bring information technology into the daily practice of medicine to connect physicians with other physicians, health providers, and patients. Also, included are the costs associated with the society's electronic e-newsline, the handling of all media contact requests, and the maintenance of the society's website.

  2. Health policy and advocacy - includes the cost of working with the d.c. Concil members to pass legislation designed to implement the society's policies and legislative priorities. The society also works on other issues in the regulatory arena, including advocacy before the executive branch agencies.

  3. Community outreach - identify, develop, and institutionalize opportunities for physician input into matters relating to public or community health in the district of columbia, including physician education and policy development.

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 ($599k) Expenses 100 ($738k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 85 ($511k) Expenses 101 ($742k) Net assets 57 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 95 ($567k) Expenses 95 ($698k) Net assets 62 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 64 ($382k) Expenses 84 ($619k) Net assets 55 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 87 ($520k) Expenses 79 ($580k) Net assets 57 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 62 ($373k) Expenses 86 ($634k) Net assets 37 ($871k)2023 Revenue 79 ($471k) Expenses 82 ($602k) Net assets 37 ($857k)2024 Revenue 91 ($548k) Expenses 105 ($775k) Net assets 32 ($749k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (91)Expenses (105)Net assets (32)

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 $2.8M to $1.9M (−34%).

$2.8M
$1.9M
$1.9M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.0M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 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. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$139k
’17
−$230k
’18
−$131k
’19
−$237k
’20
−$60k
’21
−$261k
’22
−$131k
’23
−$227k
’24
0.2
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1415191517151615
Joined·+2+8+1+2+0+2+3
No longer listed·1450214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM’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

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

IL

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

Organizations like MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM

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

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Healthy Physician Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM?
MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM.
Who is the largest funder of MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM?
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing