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SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $554,965 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY ($198,715). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.6M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$555k
Net assets
$6.4M
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Society for Academic Emergency Medicine does

Mission

To lead the advancement of academic emergency medicine through education, research, and professional development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The saem annual meeting showcases emergency medicine innovative education and research through various presentations including didactics, abstracts, leadership forums and other activities. The 2024 meeting attendance was 3,903. Various other meetings included the saem consensus conference, the aacem joint retreat, courses and regional meetings.

    $3,076,177 spentof which $3,630 as grants$2,631,671 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  2. Academic emergency medicine (aem) is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, abstracts, commentaries and other materials relevant to the practice, educational advancements, and investigation of emergency medicine. Aem education and training is a bi-monthly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing information relevant to education and training in emergency medicine. Saem also publishes the saem pulse, a bi-monthly newsletter, and saem weekly, a weekly e-newsletter. All publications are provided to saem members.

    $910,495 spentof which $1,016 as grants$456,339 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  3. Saem membership provides opportunities for mentoring and leadership, access to many resources, toolkits for academic promotion, and emergency medicine research grant opportunities. Saem provides over 30 academies and interest groups in various areas of expertise for members to collaborate and advance their respective sub-specialties. Saem also has a number of committees where members can serve to fulfill the society's specific goals and objectives.

    $616,513 spentof which $23,726 as grants$3,507,270 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  4. Saem offers a number of other educational programs including advanced research methodology evaluation and design (armed) course, chair development program course (cdp), and certificate in academic emergency medicine administration program (caema).

    $1,041,649 spentof which $1,041,649 as grants$56,704 earned by the program
    18% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,644,834.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.9M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($4.3M)2018 Revenue 104 ($5.1M) Expenses 103 ($4.6M) Net assets 102 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 109 ($5.3M) Expenses 112 ($5.0M) Net assets 127 ($5.4M)2020 Revenue 75 ($3.7M) Expenses 79 ($3.5M) Net assets 143 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 129 ($6.3M) Expenses 97 ($4.3M) Net assets 180 ($7.7M)2022 Revenue 123 ($6.0M) Expenses 138 ($6.1M) Net assets 151 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 132 ($6.5M) Expenses 151 ($6.7M) Net assets 168 ($7.2M)2024 Revenue 155 ($7.6M) Expenses 191 ($8.5M) Net assets 149 ($6.4M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (191)Net assets (149)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.1M to $10M (+28%).

$6.6M
$7.0M
$8.0M
$8.1M
$10M
$11M
$12M
$11M
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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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$469k
’17
$549k
’18
$377k
’19
$188k
’20
$2.0M
’21
−$70k
’22
−$216k
’23
−$898k
’24
1.9
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.

Chief executive

Megan Schagrin Mba Cae Cfre

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed1515161614171821
Joined·+5+4+3+2+6+7+6
No longer listed·5334363
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $67k → $74k.

Funder
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total
funders
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2
1
2
2

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Saem Research Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE raised.

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE’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

SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE.

36%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 75% · 2020 81% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.

“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

SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states in all.

WI
NY
RI
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $309k on record.

Federal$309k
grants $209kcontracts $100k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$259k
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$50k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 34%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Saem Research Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE?
SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE (Illinois) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $554,965 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY ($198,715). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $554,965 in grants to SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE?
THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $198,715 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 6 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