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· Public charity

American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

To furnish leadership and to foster advances in the surgery of trauma; to afford a forum for the exchange of knowledge pertaining to research, practice and training in the surgery of trauma; to stimulate investigation and teaching in the methods of treating injuries.

$291k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
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 2024.

Education$682kHealth$330kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $215,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $290,655 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,655 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH$35,000
The Regents of the University of California$25,000
The Ohio State University$25,000
University of Maryland Baltimore$25,000
Medical Center of the Rockies$25,000
University of Florida$25,000
University of Southern California$25,000
Washington University$25,000
AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERISTY MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 8%The Regents of the University of California: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $50k → 12%CEDAR-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%Coalition for National Trauma Research: $40k → 16%University of Florida: $25k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $50k → 19%Washington University: $25k → 11%THe Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsi: $25k → 10%Medical Center of the Rockies: $25k → 11%The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Prog: $25k → 15%University of Washington: $25k → 9%Loyola University Chicago: $25k → 14%AMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY: $5k → 4%Spirit of Chartiy Foundation: $25k → 23%University of Maryland Baltimore: $25k → 19%Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $25k → 16%The Regents of the University of California: $25k → 10%National Trauma Institute: $25k → 16%University of Florida: $25k → 19%The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsi: $25k → 10%The Ohio State University: $25k → 15%University of Washington: $25k → 9%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%Spirit of Charity Foundation: $25k → 23%COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $35k → 16%American College of Surgeons: $12k → 14%American College of Surgeons: $10k → 14%American College of Surgeons: $10k → 14%Loyola University Chicago: $25k → 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
IL
WI
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$547k · 10 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$547k
$275k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+49%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
    4× · 2017–2023 · $97k · revenue +65%
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • SO
    SPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERISTY MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • NM
    Northwestern Memorial HealthCaregraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +49%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
5
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
6
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
7
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
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern Memorial HealthCare; the most unlike its peers is American Trauma Society 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

16 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. 16 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONSTANFORD UNIVERISTY MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERISTY MEDICAL CENTERUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MEDICAL CENT HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA MEDICAL CENT H…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDATHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: $97,000 · EducationAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONSWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $50,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIALOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $50,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare: $50,000 · HealthNorthwestern Memorial …BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS …CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL C…COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $35,000 · HealthCOALITION FOR NATIONAL…MEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES: $25,000 · HealthMEDICAL CENTER OF THE …+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$400,000Education$397,000Health$215,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS: $97,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern Memorial HealthCare: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER OF THE ROCKIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Association for the Surgery of Trauma funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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