· Public charity
American College of Surgeons
The AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $7,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,216,315 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,209,315 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF THE ACS | $7,000 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- SFSOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $375k · revenue +25%
- SFSOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY2× · 2019–2020 · $213k · revenue +47%
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES8× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $397k · revenue +12%
- MBMedical Bridges Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +55%
- SSSoutheastern Surgical Congressone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -31%
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.
The cns exists to enhance health and improve lives through the advancement of neurosurgical education and scientific exchange.
The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) advances the art and science of transplant surgery through patient care, research, education, and advocacy.
The society was formed to encourage the study of breast surgery, to promote research and development of advanced surgical techniques, to improve standards of practice for breast surgery in the united states, and serve as a forum for the…
Asps promotes the highest standards in advocacy, research, education, patient safety, and ethical standards for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.
To advance the science and practice of hand and upper extremity surgery through education, research and advocacy on behalf of patients and practitioners.
To conduct medical conferences and disseminate publications updating members on new medical procedures and developments.
The AANS promotes the highest quality of patient care and advances the specialty of neurological surgery.
EAST is a scientific organization providing leadership and development for early and mid career surgeons active in the care of the injured patient through interdisciplinary collaboration, scholarship, and fellowship.
NREF supports basic science and clinical research, as well as life-long education, to foster improved outcomes for our patients with neurosurgical diseases.
To promote and stimulate scientific research into the nature, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of surgical infections.
The objectives of the Society of Asian Academic Surgeons shall be to cultivate, nurture and support the advancement of Asians in academic surgery. To achieve these objectives, the Society shall:1. Enhance the personal and professional…
To foster and advance the educational and scientific research activities of the association for academic surgery thereby enhancing the quality of care and to generally support education and scientific research concerning surgery and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Medical Bridges Inc. 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS THE ↗
- Who funds Medical Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Surgical Congress ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND ↗
- Who funds CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY ↗
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.
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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 Surgeons 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.