Maryland · Nonprofit
THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,807 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $491k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What The Phycological Society of America does
Mission
To promote research and teaching in all fields of phycology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Phycological Society of America (psa) was founded in 1946 to promote research and teaching in all fields of phycology. The society publishes the journal of phycology and the phycological newsletter. Annual meetings are held, often jointly with other national or international societies of mutual member interest. Phycological society of america student awards include the bold award for best student paper at the annual meeting, the new student poster award for the best student poster at the annual meeting. Other psa honorary awards include: the provasoli award for outstanding papers published in the journal of phycology;the prescott award for the best phycology book published within the previous two years; the norma j. Lang fellowship for early career scientist; and the award of excellence, a career achievement award for a living scientist with a record of sustained scholastic activity.
$365,541 spentof which $64,078 as grants$328,538 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $365,541.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.6M to $3.3M (−8%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Charles Amsler
Chair, bot
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $5k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA’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 PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
30% 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 THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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 PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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 THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA: 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 THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA?
- THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (Maryland) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,807 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $35,807 in grants to THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION 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 PHYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 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.
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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 3 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