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SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC

SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,500 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($37,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$693k
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
$58k
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

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01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($108k) Net assets 100 ($562k)2021 Revenue 187 ($383k) Expenses 142 ($153k) Net assets 148 ($834k)2022 Revenue 330 ($673k) Expenses 422 ($456k) Net assets 166 ($933k)2023 Revenue 365 ($746k) Expenses 280 ($303k) Net assets 260 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 340 ($693k) Expenses 468 ($506k) Net assets 301 ($1.7M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (340)Expenses (468)Net assets (301)

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$96k
20
$229k
21
$217k
22
$443k
23
$188k
24
44
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $20k.

Funder
'21
'23
total
$38k
$20k
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Society of University Surgeons Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS 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

SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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

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 OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 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

SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.

MI
MO

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

21
23
Illinois out of state home

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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
0%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS 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 SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC?
SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,500 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ($37,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $57,500 in grants to SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC?
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $37,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY OF BLACK ACADEMIC SURGEONS INC 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing