· Public charity
American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics
To establish and advocate for the highest patient care and organizational standards in the provision of safe and effective orthotic, prosthetic and pedorthic care services.See Schedule O
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research | $2,319,669 |
| The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association | $26,000 |
| Disabled American Veterans | $5,000 |
| Amputee Coalition of America Inc | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 46% of American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TOTHE ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue ×20 · 64% of their budget
- ACAMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $264k · revenue +47%
- NCNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- VSVETERANS STRIDE FOUNDATION AT IIOP INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3.0M · revenue +745%
- PFPROSTHETIKA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue -56% · 31% of their budget
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTSone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Continuing professional education
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Serving our professionals to provide the highest quality musculoskeletal care.
To advance occupational therapy practice, education, and research through standard-setting and advocacy on behalf of its members, the profession, and the public.
Engaging the orthopaedic community to develop leaders, strategies, and resources to guide the future of musculoskeletal care.
To teach, advocate, and research the science, art and philosophy of osteopathic medicine, emphasizing the integration of osteopathic principles, practices and manipulative treatment in patient care.
To serve as a global forum and network for the publication, dissemination and exchange of information and knowledge of eye diseases.
To promote quality healthcare practice management in the orthopaedic and musculoskeletal industry.
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To maintain and enhance excellence in optometric practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists and the most unlike its peers is Prosthetika Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VETERANS STRIDE FOUNDATION AT IIOP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMISSION ON ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds PROSTHETIKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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