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American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics at a glance

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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

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$6.4MRecreation & Sports$349kHuman Services$35k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $26k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
$26,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research$2,319,669
The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association$26,000
Amputee Coalition of America Inc$5,000
Disabled American Veterans$5,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Prosthetika Foundation: $37k → 9%The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research: $2.3M → 16%NAAOP National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prostheti: $6k → 14%Orthotics and Prosthetics International Institute Foundation: $3.0M → 13%Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation Inc: $40k → 10%Center for Orthotic and Prosthetic Learning and OutcomesEvidence-Based Pra: $70k → 9%Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation (OPERF): $235k → 6%The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association: $200k → 9%Amputee Coalition of America: $155k → 9%Disabled American Veterans: $5k → 10%Disabled American Veterans: $10k → 11%The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research: $180k → 16%Amputee Coalition of America Inc: $10k → 14%Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation: $15k → 10%Center for Orthotic and Prosthetic Learning and OutcomesEvidence-Based Pra: $30k → 9%Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation (OPERF): $143k → 6%The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association: $28k → 9%Amputee Coalition of America: $55k → 9%Disabled American Veterans: $5k → 10%Disabled American Veterans: $5k → 11%Amputee Coalition of America Inc: $5k → 14%Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation Inc: $10k → 10%American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists: $22k → 6%The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association: $27k → 9%Amputee Coalition of America: $15k → 9%Disabled American Veterans: $5k → 10%Disabled American Veterans: $5k → 11%Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation: $10k → 10%Orthotic and Prosthetic Education and Research Foundation (OPERF): $10k → 6%The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association: $26k → 9%Amputee Coalition of America: $13k → 9%Disabled American Veterans: $5k → 10%Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation: $5k → 10%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $15k → 9%Amputee Coalition of America: $12k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $15k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $15k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $13k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $12k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $12k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic and Prosthetic Education (NCOPE): $8k → 9%National Commission on Orthotic & Prosthetic Education: $7k → 9%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
CA
KY
VA
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 46% of American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthicslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 7 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$3.7M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+176%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TO
    THE ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $2.9M · revenue ×20 · 64% of their budget
  • AC
    AMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $264k · revenue +47%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMISSION ON ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $96k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • VS
    VETERANS STRIDE FOUNDATION AT IIOP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3.0M · revenue +745%
  • PF
    PROSTHETIKA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue -56% · 31% of their budget
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTS
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
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
Alumni Assoc of the Dept of Orthopa Surgery of the Hospital Joint Disea

Continuing professional education

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2
American Osteopathic Association

The american osteopathic association (aoa) is a membership association representing more than 168,000 osteopathic physicians (do) and osteopathic medical students. as the primary certifying body for do and the accrediting agency for all…

Health
3
American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Inc

The american society of ophthalmic plastic and recontructive surgery (asoprs) was founded to establish a qualified body of surgeons who have training and experience in the highly specialized field of oculofacial plastic surgery. the…

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4
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Serving our professionals to provide the highest quality musculoskeletal care.

Health
5
The American Occupational Therapy Association Inc

To advance occupational therapy practice, education, and research through standard-setting and advocacy on behalf of its members, the profession, and the public.

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6
American Orthopaedic Association

Engaging the orthopaedic community to develop leaders, strategies, and resources to guide the future of musculoskeletal care.

Health
7
American Academy of Osteopathy

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.

Health
8
Association for Ocular Pharmacology & Therapeutics

To serve as a global forum and network for the publication, dissemination and exchange of information and knowledge of eye diseases.

Health
9
American Alliance of Orthopaedic Executives Inc

To promote quality healthcare practice management in the orthopaedic and musculoskeletal industry.

Community Improvement
10
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

Aacom leads and advocates for the osteopathic medical education community to improve the health of the public. aacom represents and advances the continuum of medical education by: supporting our member institutions as they educate the…

Education
11
Southern Oregon Orthopedic Research Foundation
Health
12
American Academy of Optometry

To maintain and enhance excellence in optometric practice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists; 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.
05the grantee network

11 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $2,886,812 · HealthTHE ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIO…+3 more: $233,350 · Health+3 moreVETERANS STRIDE FOUNDATION AT IIOP INC: $3,000,000 · EducationVETERANS STRIDE FOUNDATION AT IIOP INCAMERICAN ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC ASSOCIATION: $280,500 · OtherAMERICAN O…AMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC: $264,000 · OtherAMPUTEE CO…Disabled American Veterans: $40,000 · OtherDisabled A…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTS: $22,099 · Other+1 more: $6,000 · OtherORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$3,120,162Education$3,000,000Other$612,599Recreation & Sports$80,000

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 ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH: $2,886,812 over 5y, 64% of budgetAMERICAN ORTHOTIC AND PROSTHETIC ASSOCIATION: $280,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAMPUTEE COALITION OF AMERICA INC: $264,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTHE AOPA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC EDUCATION: $96,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetORTHOTIC & PROSTHETIC ACTIVITIES FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 5y, 70% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTHETIKA FOUNDATION: $37,350 over 1y, 31% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOTISTS AND PROSTHETISTS: $22,099 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ORTHOTICS & PROSTHETICS: $6,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report 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.
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    Find your warmest path to American Board for Certification in Orthotics Prosthetics & Pedorthics through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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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