named programs · 5 · from sources
What they call their work
Child Care Meeting Award
Offers up to $1,500 per awardee to defray child care costs for meeting attendees giving oral presentations
Early Career Travel Award
Provides up to three awards of $1,500 each for early-career scientists in tenure-track or permanent positions to attend and present at the annual meeting
Founder’s Award
Funds parsimony-based systematics research by graduate students, with up to $10,000 awarded per cycle for thesis-related fieldwork, museum visits, or equipment
Student Presentation Prizes
Awards up to three student presenters at the annual meeting: the Willi Hennig Award ($1,500), Lars Brundin Award ($1,000), and Don Rosen Award ($500) for best oral and poster presentations
Student Travel Awards
Provides Marie Stopes Award ($800) for intracontinental and Kurt Milton Pickett Award ($1,500) for intercontinental travel to annual meetings for students and early postdocs
activities · 6 groups
What they do
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Psychoanalytic and Therapeutic Training Support 1 activity
- Awarding grants for phylogenetic research and software developmentFunds parsimony-based systematics research by graduate students through up to three Founder’s Awards per funding period totaling no more than $10,000, and supports the development and free distribution of the phylogenetic analysis software TNT.
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Professional Conference Support 1 activity
- Funding student and early-career researcher participation in meetingsProvides up to $15,000 annually in student travel awards, up to $10,000 annually in childcare support (max $1,500 per awardee), and up to three Early Career Travel Awards of $1,500 each per meeting to support attendance and participation by students and early-career scientists in tenure-track or permanent positions.
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Membership Program Administration 1 activity
- Managing organizational membership and journal accessAccepts annual membership payments and provides members with online access to the journal Cladistics as a membership benefit.
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Scientific Conference & Symposium Management 1 activity
- Organizing annual and virtual scientific meetingsOrganizes annual in-person meetings, such as the Hennig XLII meeting in Hong Kong (2025) and the upcoming 2026 meeting in Bogotá, Colombia. During the pandemic, replaced the 2020 meeting with a virtual webinar series titled 'Breaking Isolation' and canceled the 2020 meeting, hosting nine virtual workshops between 2021 and 2023 featuring scientific presentations.
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Recognition and Awards Programs 1 activity
- Recognizing student contributions at annual meetingsAwards up to three student presentation prizes at each annual meeting based on judged merit to encourage and recognize student participation and excellence in phylogenetic systematics.
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Uncategorized 1 activity
- Advancing phylogenetic systematics through research publicationAdvances the science of phylogenetic systematics by publishing research papers in the journal Cladistics, covering theory, methodology, and applications in evolution, biogeography, genomics, and related fields. Volumes 1–34(4) (1985–2018) of the journal are openly accessible online.
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financials · form 990 · fy2021
revenue
Total revenue$75K
Contributions & grants$2K3%
Program service revenue$73K97%
Investment income$1960%
Other revenue$0
expenses
Total expenses$12K
Program expenses66%
Admin / overhead34%
Fundraising0%
Salaries & benefits$0
Grants paid out$0
Largest expense lineProfessional Fees
balance sheet
Total assets$430K
Cash$430K
Investments$0
Liabilities$0
Net assets$430K
Liquid reserves430.8 mo
2 years on record · 2020–2021 · YoY revenue +121.0%
relationships · 21
Who they work with
- Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin Government — Designated Hennig as future Director of the German Entomological Institute in 1961.
- American Museum of Natural History Network — Awarded Hennig the gold medal for his scientific accomplishments.
- Cladistics Network — Hosts content related to the Willi Hennig Society on its website.
- Cladistics Network — Hosts the Willi Hennig Society's annual meeting website and symposia information.
- Cladistics Network — Hosts the annual meeting website and collaborates on dissemination of program information for Hennig Society events.
- Cladistics Network — Journal affiliated with the Society where members publish and exchange ideas.
- Cladistics Partner — Journal where recipients of the Founder’s Award are expected to submit their resulting work.
- Fundación Miguel Lillo Partner — Hosts the administrative office of the Willi Hennig Society through its Secretary, Dr. Santiago Catalano.
- Linnean Society London Network — Awarded Hennig the gold medal for his scientific accomplishments.
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Government — Formerly housed the German Entomological Institute, which was reorganized under this society after World War II.
- New York Botanical Garden Partner — Co-host of the 2015 and 1995 annual meetings.
- State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart Partner — Employed Hennig as head of the Department for Phylogenetic Research.
- Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences Network — Hennig was appointed to this internationally reputed scientific academy.
- UNAM Partner — Host institution for the 2024 annual meeting in Mexico City, Mexico.
- UNEP Government — Collaborates with the United Nations Environment Programme through the OARE Initiative to provide free online access to Cladistics in developing world institutions.
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia Partner — Host institution for the 2026 annual meeting.
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia Partner — Host institution for the Hennig XLIII Annual Meeting in 2026.
- University of California Berkeley Partner — Host institution for the 2019 annual meeting.
- Wiley Government — Handles online access and distribution of the journal Cladistics for members.
- Wiley Blackwell Partner — Partner in publishing the journal Cladistics.
- www.lillo.org.ar Partner — Hosts download and general information for the TNT software.
strategies · 2
How they approach the work
Named approaches extracted from this org’s sources. Where others share an approach, follow it to see the full set of orgs running it.
- Integrative Advancement of Phylogenetic Systematicsmethodology: integrative_systematicsBy combining theoretical, methodological, and empirical research within a unified framework, the society advances phylogenetic systematics as a rigorous scientific discipline because integration strengthens both analytical validity and practical application in systematic biology.
- Open Knowledge Dissemination via Membership and Publicationmethodology: open_access_disseminationBy providing free access to Cladistics and incentivizing publication and meeting participation through fee waivers and travel awards, the society increases dissemination of systematic research because removing financial and access barriers enhances scholarly engagement and output.