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American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery at a glance

· Public charity

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

To serve the best interests of the public and of the medical profession by establishing educational standards for orthopaedic residents and by evaluating the initial and continuing qualifications and competence of orthopaedic surgeons.

$6k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Health$527kInternational$15kHousing & Shelter$12kEmployment$8kYouth Development$8kAnimals$7k
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,165
Median grant
1
States reached
$61M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREF- ORTHO RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,165
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PERRY INIT: $8k → 10%HUMANE: $7k → 14%BIG BROTHER: $8k → 13%ST JUDE: $15k → 17%HABITAT: $12k → 22%SIGN FRACT: $6k → 11%OREF- ORTHO RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - SURGICAL STIMULATION TRAINI: $300k → 14%HEALTH V: $9k → 14%ORTHO RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (OREF): $180k → 14%OREF- ORTHO RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $26k → 14%OREF- ORTHO RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 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.
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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $512,315 · HealthOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation+2 more: $21,350 · HealthHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $11,540 · OtherPERRY INIT: $8,150 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $7,670 · OtherHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $9,110 · InternationalHumane World for Animals Inc: $7,430 · Animals
Health$533,665Other$27,360International$9,110Animals$7,430

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 budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $512,315 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $11,540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC: $9,110 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $7,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $7,430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGN FRACTURE CARE INTERNATIONAL: $6,240 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 of Orthopaedic Surgery funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 8 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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