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American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation

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$526k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2023
63%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$528k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’23
HealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$510k76%
FY20238$180k63%
FY20208$100k63%
FY20193$38k67%
FY20186$88k83%
FY20175$63kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$238kEducation$183kScience & Tech$75k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$185,00050%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$87,5002n/a
American Academy of Family Physicians$75,00010%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$75,0001n/a
University of Pittsburgh$42,50020%
Children's Hospital Medical Center$40,00030%
Northwestern University$30,0001n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$30,0002n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus$27,5002n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$25,0002n/a
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All grantees of American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$185,00050%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$87,5002n/a
American Academy of Family Physicians$75,00010%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$75,0001n/a
University of Pittsburgh$42,50020%
Children's Hospital Medical Center$40,00030%
Northwestern University$30,0001n/a
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$30,0002n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus$27,5002n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$25,0002n/a
University of Washington$25,0002n/a
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research$15,0001n/a
Cleveland Va Medical Research and Education Foundation$15,00010%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$15,00010%
Lahey Clinic Inc$15,00010%
Methodist Hospital$15,0001n/a
Oregon Health & Science University$15,0001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$15,0001n/a
St Louis University$15,00010%
Children's Hospital Corporation$15,00010%
University of California Davis$15,0001n/a
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$15,0001n/a
Loyola University of Chicago$15,00010%
Creighton University$15,00010%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$15,00010%
Rhode Island Hospital$12,50010%
Pediatric Academic Association Inc$12,50010%
University of Chicago$12,50010%
Nihnia$12,5001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$12,5001n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado$12,5001n/a
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$12,50010%
The George Washington University$12,50010%
National Sports Medicine Foundation Inc$12,5001n/a
Brigham and Women's Hospital$12,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $185,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Family Physicians: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Va Medical Research and Education Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLahey Clinic Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Louis University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University of Chicago: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Academic Association Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis AssnVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation

How much does American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation give?
American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $526,007 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (37%), Science & Tech (15%).
Who are American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($185k), University of Alabama at Birmingham ($88k), American Academy of Family Physicians ($75k).
Does American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn.
Where is American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation based?
American Board of Medical Specialties Research and Education Foundation is based in IL.

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 38 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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