Maryland · Nonprofit
NAASO The Obesity Society Inc
NAASO The Obesity Society Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,557 to it, the largest being The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ($44,481). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $95k
- Net assets
- $6.0M
What NAASO The Obesity Society Inc does
Mission
As the premier scientific medical organization in the obesity field, The Obesity Society (TOS) is uniquely positioned to lead the way in advancing the science-based understanding of the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of obesity. The mission of The Obesity Society (TOS) is to advocate and promote the highest quality in research, clinical care, education, and policy development to address the needs of people living with obesity. In addition, TOS offers its members a community to facilitate professionalnetworking with peers in all fields related to obesity. The Obesity Society's membership is open to all individuals with a professional interest in obesity, and TOS recognizes the importance of diverse perspectives and experiences in our efforts to better understand, treat, and prevent obesity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Obesity Week:Annual Scientific Meeting: Annual Scientific Meeting: Our annual scientific meeting was held this year in November, and all activities were performed through the partnership entity Obesity Week, LLC with 100% of net profits returning to TOS.
$44,953 spent$1,857,071 earned by the program2% of program spendingObesity Journal: Obesity Journal is a monthly publication of peer-reviewed integrated studies and exploration of scientific developments in all areas of obesity-related research, including clinical investigations, obesity biology, integrated physiology, pediatric obesity, epidemiology, and genetics.
$318,776 spent$559,146 earned by the program13% of program spendingMembership
$207,689 spent$779,157 earned by the program9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,796,827 spentof which $353,259 as grants$648,664 earned by the program76% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,368,245.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.5M to $8.5M (+56%).
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: 2021 6% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Anthony G Commuzzie
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 NAASO The Obesity Society Inc’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
NAASO The Obesity Society Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 NAASO The Obesity Society Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 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
NAASO The Obesity Society Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Organizations like NAASO The Obesity Society Inc
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Obesity Week LLC · disregarded
- Obesity Week LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAASO The Obesity Society Inc: 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 NAASO The Obesity Society Inc?
- NAASO The Obesity Society Inc (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,557 to it, the largest being The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ($44,481). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NAASO The Obesity Society Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $94,557 in grants to NAASO The Obesity Society Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAASO The Obesity Society Inc?
- The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $44,481 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAASO The Obesity Society Inc 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.
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 4 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