California · Nonprofit
Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science
Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31
- Net assets
- $91k
What Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science does
Mission
NCB-AALAS is a not-for-profit, volunteer educational association dedicated to the advancement of laboratory animal science through the dissemination of knowledge and promotion of expertise in the responsible care and use of laboratory animals. Anyone interested in research animals for scientific investigation may join this association. Our organization provides high quality, affordable educational opportunities, technical training, and resources for career development and professional certification to its members, some of whom might otherwise not have access to these types of learning and networking opportunities. The educational programs emphasize the appropriate handling, care, and use of laboratory animals, preparation for AALAS certification exams, improving knowledge in technical areas, and helping to meet training mandates of regulatory agencies. Many San Francisco Bay Area research facilities require AALAS certification for hiring or advancement. NCB-AALAS provides, and heavily
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
NCB-AALAS membership includes more than 600 clinical veterinarians, technicians, technologists, educators, business people, researchers, administrators, animal producers, national and international experts. Our 2025 activities included: Aside from all the other membership benefits NCB-AALAS offers, they also provided its members with the option to purchase substantially discounted subscriptions ($20 annual fee - approximately one-tenth the cost of an individual subscription) to the AALAS Learning Library (ALL), which includes access to its over 70 online courses for technicians, veterinarians, facility managers, ethics committee members, and researchers that work with animals in a research or education setting. 56 members took advantage of our organizational license in 2025. The NCB-AALAS website includes educational resources, job listings, links to commercial vendors, as well as past and present events. The NCB-AALAS Board of Directors held quarterly meetings on the following dates: February 7, 2025 May 16, 2025 July 18, 2025 October 10, 2025
$1,700 spent4% of program spendingDuring 2025, NCB-AALAS was able to sponsor the following in-person and virtual activities: March 21, 2025 NCB-AALAS Spring Social (62 registrants) July 10, 2025 NCB-AALAS Summer Social (79 registrants) August 28, 2025 - hosted the NCB AALAS Annual Awards Luncheon, Embassy Suites, South San Francisco, CA. The symposium included educational talks, a vendor exhibit, general membership meeting, and presentation of Annual Awards to outstanding members (140 registrants). December 12, 2025 2025 NCB-AALAS Holiday Event (97 registrants)
$36,646 spent96% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $38,346.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $90k to $73k (−19%).
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 Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science’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 Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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
Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,315 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,315 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science: 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 Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science?
- Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31 in grants to Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Northern California Branch American Assoc for Laboratory Animal Science 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.
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 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