California · Nonprofit
MSACL
MSACL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,005 to it, the largest being DANAHER FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $667k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $628k
What Msacl does
Mission
MSACL (The Association for Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Laboratory) facilitates discussion, networking, education and intellectual growth in the field of clinical analysis using mass spectrometry and other advanced technologies (including data science, NMR, etc.) with the goal of improving analytical competency and, thereby, patient outcomes. This mission is achieved via in-person conferences, online conferences and webinars, community outreach, and publishing a scientific journal (Journal of Mass Spectrometry & Advances in the Clinical Lab; JMSACL).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We moved our conference month from march to september, so for fiscal year july 2024-june 2025 we did not hold a conference. Our next conference is september 21-26, 2025. On Msacl connect, our virtual platform, we hosted 13 seminars. The open access Msacl journal, jMsacl, published over 20 scientific papers and received an impact factor of 3.4 for 2024 (reported in july 2025).
$260,846 spent$666,843 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $260,846.
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 2023 to 2024, from $910k to $680k (−25%).
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.
0% of MSACL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
David Herold
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $50k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 MSACL’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
MSACL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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% · 2022 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
MSACL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
MSACL is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MSACL
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MSACL: 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 MSACL?
- MSACL (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,005 to it, the largest being DANAHER FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MSACL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $57,005 in grants to MSACL.
- Who is the largest funder of MSACL?
- DANAHER FOUNDATION 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 MSACL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 3 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