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American College of Cardiology Foundation

To transform cardiovascular care and improve heart health for all.

$589k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$64k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$3.6MEducation$1.4MScience & Tech$165kEmployment$53kRecreation & Sports$35k
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 15 grants below total $525,696 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $588,524 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,828 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $320k
$25,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$296M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Regents of the University of California Davis$63,965
The Christ Hospital$56,000
Regents of the University of California San Diego$50,000
Duke University$50,000
Regents of the University of California San Franc$50,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital$50,000
Henry Ford Health System$49,755
Minneapolis Heart Institute Fnd$25,000
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$25,000
The Regents of the University of Colorado$25,000
Association of Black Cardiologists inc$25,000
Parkview Hospital Inc$24,976
American Heart Association$15,000
Regents of the University of Minnesota$10,000
Naples Community Hospital Inc$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $35k → 8%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $70k → 16%The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford: $100k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $35k → 8%Regents of the University of California San Diego: $50k → 11%The Regents of the University of California Davis: $308k → 16%The Trustees of Columbia Univ: $50k → 17%Brookdale Hospital Medical Center: $41k → 20%Orlando Heart Specialists: $79k → 11%Holy Cross Hospital: $159k → 13%Washington University: $50k → 11%SAINT FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: $45k → 14%Columbia ST Mary: $101k → 17%Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $100k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $63k → 11%The Regents of the University of Colorado: $50k → 12%PARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC: $75k → 12%INDIANA UNIVERSITY HEALTH INC: $75k → 16%The Christ Hospital: $150k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $35k → 14%Capital Health System Inc: $66k → 11%Ashland Hospital Corporation: $41k → 18%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $50k → 16%MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FND: $125k → 11%The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford: $75k → 7%The Regents of the University of California Davis: $168k → 16%The Trustees of Columbia Univ: $50k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $35k → 11%ThedaCare Hospital: $93k → 17%Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $100k → 14%Parkview Hospital Inc: $50k → 12%Christ Hospital: $125k → 16%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $50k → 16%Minneapolis Heart Institute Fnd: $75k → 11%The Regents of the University of California Davis: $64k → 16%The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $122k → 17%Duke University: $50k → 11%The Christ Hospital: $100k → 16%Minneapolis Heart Institute Fnd: $75k → 11%Duke University: $50k → 11%The Christ Hospital: $56k → 16%MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FND: $50k → 11%THE CHRIST HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%Brigham and Women's Hospital: $75k → 16%THE CHRIST HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%Tufts Medical Center: $50k → 16%The Massachusetts General Hospital Corp: $50k → 16%The Massachusetts General Hospital Corp: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
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NY
MA
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
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CO
MO
KY
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VA
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DC
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GA
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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of American College of Cardiology Foundation’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.

American College of Cardiology Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.9% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 22 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
27

Total granted

$3.6M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

59%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TC
    The Christ Hospital
    4× · 2019–2023 · $350k · revenue +39%
  • MH
    MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +29%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    4× · 2019–2023 · $253k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $159k · revenue +52%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $122k · revenue +54%
  • AH
    AURORA HEALTH CARE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $115k · revenue -84%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
7
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
8
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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9
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
10
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
11
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbia St Mary's Hospital Milwaukee Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association of Black Cardiologists Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%53%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Christ Hospital — $350,000 · HealthThe Christ HospitalMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $350,000 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONVanderbilt University Medical Center — $252,500 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC — $174,905 · HealthPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INCHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC — $159,168 · HealthHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INCAURORA HEALTH CARE INC — $115,211 · HealthCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S HOSPITAL MILWAUKEE INC — $101,203 · HealthThedaCare Inc — $92,759 · HealthCAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $86,000 · Health+16 more — $570,972 · Health+16 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $556,685 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $272,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $212,506 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAChrist Hospital — $181,000 · OtherChrist HospitalMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $152,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $100,000 · OtherOrlando Heart Specialists — $79,103 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC — $75,000 · Other+14 more — $280,157 · Other+14 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $227,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $218,681 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $122,421 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COL…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $85,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSI…The George Washington University — $50,000 · EducationThe George Washingt…Yale University — $50,000 · EducationYale University+2 more — $35,000 · EducationNorthwestern University — $70,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$2,252,718Other$2,009,451Education$888,602Recreation & Sports$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Christ Hospital — $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $252,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $227,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $218,681 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKVIEW HOSPITAL INC — $174,905 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC — $159,168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $122,421 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE INC — $115,211 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA ST MARY'S HOSPITAL MILWAUKEE INC — $101,203 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThedaCare Inc — $92,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $86,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Health Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM — $66,967 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetASHLAND HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $61,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKDALE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $61,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $61,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $49,755 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK CARDIOLOGISTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION — $20,756 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANNER MEDICAL CENTER INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITALS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY HOSPITAL SYSTEM INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL CO — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Reach Out and Read IncMayo ClinicMuscular Dystrophy As…Yale UniversityThe Ayco Charitable F…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
American Cancer Society IncGA22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Mayo Clinic · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Yale University · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 College of Cardiology Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Capital Health System Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to American College of Cardiology Foundation?

Find your warmest path to American College of Cardiology Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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