Maryland · Nonprofit
THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY
THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being THE AGOURON INSTITUTE ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio match
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $500 → $6k.
From the IRS filings of THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY’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
THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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% · 2021 40% · 2022 83% · 2023 83% — 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
THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 152 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- American Institute of Physics Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kavli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schmidt Ocean Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Medical Specialty Societiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visitor Development Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Grass Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tbl Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Biotechnology Innovation Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seti Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Medical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $98k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$98k
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 THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY?
- THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being THE AGOURON INSTITUTE ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY?
- THE AGOURON INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY 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 4funders 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