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American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand

To advance the care of hand and upper extremity disorders by supporting research, education and outreach through the efficient collection of donations and administration of grants.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$628k
Largest
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02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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 2024.

Health$8.6MScience & Tech$166k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,191,372, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,825,443 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $634,071 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $388k
  • $250k+1 grant · $628k
$60,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND$627,872
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$66,250
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$66,250
MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE$65,000
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$65,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$65,000
HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE$60,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$46,000
HIA TECHNOLOGIES INC$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$25,000
ORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$20,000
SPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION$20,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $65k → 16%HIA TECHNOLOGIES INC: $35k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $66k → 14%ORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $65k → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.4M → 14%SPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 23%HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $60k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $66k → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.2M → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.2M → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.1M → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $983k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $979k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $628k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $601k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $20k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $20k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $20k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $20k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $20k → 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

WA
IL
MI
MA
PA
CA
MD
NC
LA
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 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 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $8,196,075 · HealthAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND+3 more: $126,000 · HealthREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $91,250 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $65,000 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $65,000 · OtherHIA TECHNOLOGIES INC: $35,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $30,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $66,250 · EducationSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Health$8,322,075Other$351,250Education$66,250Philanthropy$20,000

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 budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $8,196,075 over 8y, 11% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $66,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $46,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 7.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine: 100% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1rely 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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