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Abim Foundation

See schedule o.as an operating charity, the ABIM FOUNDATION develops and implements projects in support of our mission to advance the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$269k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$13MCivil Rights$875kEducation$411kFood & Nutrition$80kPublic Benefit$55kHousing & Shelter$40kCrime & Legal$40kSocial Science$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $289k
  • $250k+1 grant · $269k
$20,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADEMYHEALTH$269,474
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS INC (ACP)$102,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$86,597
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
PATIENT CENTERED PRIMARY CARE FOUNDATION$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CAPITAL REGION HEALTH$40,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$40,000
ALAMEDA HEALTH SYSTEM$40,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$40,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$40,000
HEALTHTEAMWORKS$20,000
THE ARNOLD P GOLD FOUNDATION$20,000
PRIME HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN REGIONAL LLC$20,000
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GIVE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 9%PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 17 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
59

Total granted

$13M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+10%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $577k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10M · revenue +82%
  • A
    ACADEMYHEALTH
    6× · 2019–2025 · $812k · revenue +22%
  • CO
    COSTS OF CARE INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $175k · revenue +292%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $160k · revenue -2%
  • KF
    KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue 0%
  • TP
    THE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $62k · revenue +3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
8
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meharry Medical College; the most unlike its peers is Give Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 98 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
40/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE: $10,030,225 · HealthTHE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINEACADEMYHEALTH: $812,320 · HealthACADEMYHEALTH+23 more: $982,548 · Health+23 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $145,555 · OtherREGENTS O…UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $56,000 · Other+48 more: $1,014,660 · Other+48 moreINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $1,024,559 · Civil RightsTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $120,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $65,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationSOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE: $42,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $31,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $30,000 · Education+9 more: $122,500 · EducationPROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $30,250 · Human ServicesGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $53,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$11,825,093Other$1,216,215Civil Rights$1,024,559Education$745,500Human Services$55,250Science & Tech$53,000Recreation & Sports$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE: $10,030,225 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $1,024,559 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetACADEMYHEALTH: $812,320 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOSTS OF CARE INC: $175,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS INC: $102,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATIENT-CENTERED PRIMARY CARE FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC: $62,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON: $55,970 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF HOSPITAL MEDICINE: $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDimensions Health Corporation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF HEALTHCARE PURCHASER COALITIONS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ACCOUNTABLE CARE: $34,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $33,618 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hastings Center Inc: $33,364 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe George Washington University: $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE TRINITYCARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $30,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC AGENDA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LEAPFROG GROUP: $24,960 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTHTEAMWORKS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Hospitals Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH'S FOUNDATION OF SAN JOAQUIN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Heart Associ…American Cancer Socie…Reach Out and Read IncJohns Hopkins Univers…Laura and John Arnold…The Commonwealth FundVanderbilt University…American Medical Asso…Cystic Fibrosis Found…The Children's Hospit…Yale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…
American Heart Association IncTX30.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Johns Hopkins University · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · The Commonwealth Fund · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Medical Association · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Abim Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Abim Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
  • Dimensions Health Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home