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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$428kEducation$406kArts & Culture$397kScience & Tech$153kPublic Safety & Disaster$12k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,216,315 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,209,315 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$773M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF THE ACS$7,000
02The need
03

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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $40k → 16%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $35k → 14%Southeastern Surgical Congress: $10k → 5%TENNESSEE CHAPTER ACS: $12k → 14%TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF THE ACS: $7k → 8%SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE ASCO: $6k → 9%COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $35k → 16%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $30k → 14%TENNESSEE CHAPTER ACS: $12k → 14%American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand: $40k → 14%COALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $35k → 16%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $40k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 14%National Academy of Sciences: $25k → 14%National Academy Of Sciences: $25k → 14%National Academy Of Sciences: $10k → 14%Nat'l Academies of Sci Eng & Medicine: $10k → 14%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NE
VA
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$961k · 6 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$961k
$435k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+25%

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
HealthScience & TechEducationInternationalOther
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

  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $375k · revenue +25%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $213k · revenue +47%
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $397k · revenue +12%
  • MB
    Medical Bridges Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +32%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +44%
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
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Inc

The cns exists to enhance health and improve lives through the advancement of neurosurgical education and scientific exchange.

Health
2
American Society of Transplant Surgeons

The American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) advances the art and science of transplant surgery through patient care, research, education, and advocacy.

Health
3
American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Asps promotes the highest standards in advocacy, research, education, patient safety, and ethical standards for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.

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4
American Society for Surgery of the Hand

To advance the science and practice of hand and upper extremity surgery through education, research and advocacy on behalf of patients and practitioners.

Health
5
Association for Academic Surgery

To conduct medical conferences and disseminate publications updating members on new medical procedures and developments.

Education
6
The American Society of Breast Surgeons

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…

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7
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

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.

Health
8
Association for Academic Surgery Foundation

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…

Education
9
Surgical Infection Society

To promote and stimulate scientific research into the nature, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of surgical infections.

Health
10
American Association of Neurological Surgeons Inc

The AANS promotes the highest quality of patient care and advances the specialty of neurological surgery.

Health
11
Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundation

NREF supports basic science and clinical research, as well as life-long education, to foster improved outcomes for our patients with neurosurgical diseases.

Health
12
Society of Asian Academic Surgeons

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation; 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.
04the 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATION: $375,000 · HealthSOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATIONCOALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $110,000 · HealthCOALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCHAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $80,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND+2 more: $15,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $397,188 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATIO…SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY: $212,500 · OtherSOCIETY FOR VASCULA…TENNESSEE CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS THE: $30,500 · OtherTENNESSEE CHAPTER O…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $152,500 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACAD…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $10,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACAD…Medical Bridges Inc: $12,000 · International
Health$580,500Education$397,188Other$243,000Science & Tech$162,500International$12,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $397,188 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetSOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY: $212,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $152,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH: $110,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTENNESSEE CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS THE: $30,500 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetMedical Bridges Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoutheastern Surgical Congress: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%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
    3report 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.

    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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