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Your support helps APS build and sustain a strong, inclusive physics community that positively impacts the lives of researchers, students, educators, and the general public.
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Ways to give

APS initiatives rely in great part on donations from generous individuals like you.

When giving, you can reference APS's federal tax ID number: 13-1656610. Donation-related mail can be addressed to:

APS Development Office
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740

One-time online gift

Giving to APS online is a convenient and secure way to donate.

Recurring monthly giving

Small donations go a long way to supporting the vitality of APS, and monthly giving takes this one step further in securing the future of APS for generations to come.

Wire transfers and ACH

Support APS with a gift given through Automated Clearing House or direct transfer from your account.

Mail your gift

If donating to a specific campaign, please note the campaign in the memo and make checks payable to American Physical Society.

APS Development Office
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740

Support APS initiatives

By giving to APS initiatives, you become an integral part of sustaining an inclusive and vibrant physics community. Your gifts directly benefit the people APS serves, from researchers and educators sharing their knowledge, to students and the general public discovering the importance of physics.

Give to the initiatives meaningful to you

Planned giving

Through the Legacy Circle, you can strengthen the future of the physics community through sustained, planned giving, such as financial and estate planning. We recommend that you consult with your tax advisor.

Participate in planned giving. Join the Legacy Circle

Join an increasing number of APS members who make an IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution to support APS programs.

Give through an IRA

A donor-advised fund allows you to easily recommend a grant in support of the APS mission.

Read about DAFs

You can contribute appreciated securities that you have owned for more than one year.

Share our resources with your broker

You don’t have to part with assets today—through your will or trust, you can plan a gift to APS after you provide for your loved ones, giving you flexibility to change your gift as life’s circumstances change.

Add APS to your will or trust

You can transfer ownership, take a deduction, or deduct future premium payments on your policy to support APS's mission. You can also leverage your policy by naming APS as a beneficiary.

Inquire about life insurance gifts

Check with your employer to see if they will match your gift to double your impact.

Inquire about matching gifts

Champion the physics community by supporting award endowments

Your contributions to current APS endowment campaigns advances physics to benefit students, early career scientists, and others with exceptional achievements in the field.

Advance exceptional research accomplishments by early-career scientists in the interdisciplinary area of precision measurement and fundamental constants.

Support the Pipkin Award

Recognize and encourage impactful research in climate physics.

Support the Foote Award

This award honors outstanding and sustained contributions by an early-career researcher in the field of biological physics.

Early Career Award for Biological Physics Research

Advance outstanding research by early career elementary particle physicists

Support the Henry Primakoff Award Endowment
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I am grateful to APS for awarding me a Congressional Science Fellowship. It allowed me to have a career in a field I'm passionate about: renewable energy and energy efficiency. - Allan R. Hoffman

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Donor recognition

APS is grateful to those who give at all levels to sustain the physics community.

View our donors in the annual report

The Leadership Circle

The APS Leadership Circle recognizes individuals and organizations who have generously demonstrated their commitment to the future of APS through lifetime giving of $100,000 or more.

The Loyal Donors Circle

The Loyal Donors Circle honors APS's annual donors of 10 consecutive years or more, whether their gifts have been $5, $50, $200, or more.

The Legacy Circle

APS is pleased to honor our Legacy Circle donors, forward-thinking members and friends who reinforce APS's mission through financial and estate planning.

Your donation helps sustain a strong and inclusive physics community, positively impacting the lives of researchers, students, educators, and the general public.

Federal tax ID: 13-1656610

APS Development Office
One Physics Ellipse
College Park, MD 20740

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Meet the fundraising team

APS's fundraising team is here to answer your questions to help you support the physics causes you care about most.

Nikki Natoli
Senior Manager, Campaign and Donor Relations
Laleña Lancaster
Prospect Research Specialist

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