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AMERICAN CENTER FOR PHYSICS INC

EIN 52-1712905 COLLEGE PARK, MD

Largest nonprofits in Maryland

Revenue 2025
$3,890,830
Expenses 2025
$3,285,643

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
U300
Classification
1000
Street
1 PHYSICS ELLIPSE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE PURPOSE OF THE CORPORATION IS EXCLUSIVELY TO OPERATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF, TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, AND TO CARRY OUT THE PURPOSES OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS TEACHERS, THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INCORPORATED, THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, AS MAY BE DETERMINED FROM TIME TO TIME, THAT ARE RECOGNIZED AS PUBLIC CHARITIES AND EXEMPT FROM TAX UNDER SECTION 501(C)(3) WHO ARE DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHYSICS AND RELATED SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

AMERICAN CENTER FOR PHYSICS, INC. PROVIDES A NATIONAL CENTER FOR PHYSICS AND RELATED SCIENCES.

  • ACP IS A MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION WHICH IS EXCLUSIVELY TO OPERATE FOR THE BENEFIT OF, TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, AND TO CARRY OUT THE PURPOSE OF THE INITIAL MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS.

    Expenses $3,285,643 · Revenue $3,671,387

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Beth A Cunningham

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $346,676
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $275,036
    Other
    $71,640
    Hours/week
    3 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $275,036 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $24,753 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $46,887 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $346,676 related
  • Catherine G Swartz

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $469,832
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $421,259
    Other
    $48,573
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $385,259 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $36,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $35,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $13,573 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $469,832 related
  • Jane Hopkins Gould

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $553,329
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $498,877
    Other
    $54,452
    Hours/week
    10 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $478,877 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $20,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $28,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,452 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $553,329 related
  • Jonathan Bagger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $654,350
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $591,174
    Other
    $63,176
    Hours/week
    3 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $521,174 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $70,000 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $28,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $35,176 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $654,350 related
  • Michael Brosnan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $216,391
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $159,182
    Other
    $57,209
    Hours/week
    3 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $159,182 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $14,326 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $42,883 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $216,391 related
  • Michael H Moloney

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $732,561
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $674,673
    Other
    $57,888
    Hours/week
    3 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $564,810 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $109,863 related
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0 + $35,000 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $22,888 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $732,561 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,890,830
    Expenses
    $3,285,643
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,096,408
    Expenses
    $3,964,849
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $22,884,739
    Expenses
    $1,811,792
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,789,791
    Expenses
    $2,404,745
    Contributions
    $59,165
    Grants paid
    $20,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,493,197
    Expenses
    $2,036,840
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,806,500
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,228,940
    Expenses
    $2,294,776
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,666,340
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,684,705
    Expenses
    $2,461,173
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,597,415
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,208,754
    Expenses
    $2,450,538
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,346,291
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,614,287
    Expenses
    $3,097,578
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,519,103
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,669,750
    Expenses
    $3,494,303
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,885,688
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,969,400
    Expenses
    $4,008,658
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,886,684
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,555,952
    Expenses
    $4,714,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,057,712
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,728,084
    Expenses
    $5,033,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $21,792,737
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $5,038,807
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,981,290

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • TOWN OF RIVERDALE PARK

    $20,000

    2022 COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility SOUNK.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.