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American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine

The AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE (the society) is a nonprofit corporation which develops and disseminates knowledge in the field of sports medicine.

$933k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$360k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.1MEducation$934kOther$1.1M
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $889,508 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $933,004 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,496 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 · $8k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $360k
$13,200
Median grant
16
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OREF$359,548
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$150,000
THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION$41,000
MAYO CLINIC$25,700
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$25,000
UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$25,000
NYU LANGONE DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$24,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$24,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$15,960
3B MEDICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$13,200
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$13,200
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$13,200
TRIA ORTHOPEDIC CENTER PROGRAM$13,200
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $150k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $42k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%STANFORD DEPT OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY: $25k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $24k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 14%THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $41k → 14%Washington University: $50k → 21%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%CAMPBELL CLINIC FOUNDATION: $16k → 17%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $38k → 8%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DRUSINSKY SPORTS MEDICINE INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%SANFORD HEALTH: $25k → 9%SOCIETY OF MILITARY ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS: $20k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON: $16k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $26k → 9%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $16k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAN CENTER: $25k → 14%THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $24k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $16k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $25k → 8%Cincinnati Children's Hospital Med Ctr: $50k → 16%Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons: $20k → 11%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $50k → 16%The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania: $50k → 22%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $25k → 17%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 21%Vanderbilt University: $50k → 14%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MED CTR: $50k → 16%OREF: $360k → 14%Tufts University: $25k → 16%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 14%Hospital for Special Surgery: $25k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 21%OREF: $260k → 14%NYU LANGONE DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY: $25k → 17%OREF: $90k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $16k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $16k → 14%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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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.

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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 23 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$2.0M
$234k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

78%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $548k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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HealthEducationOther

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

  • OR
    Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $350k · revenue +18%
  • Vanderbilt University
    4× · 2018–2022 · $200k · revenue +65%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +25%
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +9%

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
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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
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Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
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Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Hospitals Health System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mississippi Sports Medicine Foundation. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%61%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%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,516

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
30/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $349,548 · HealthOrthopaedic Research and Education Found…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $150,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERMAYO CLINIC — $118,162 · HealthMAYO CLINICTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $65,000 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATIONCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $60,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center — $50,000 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $50,000 · HealthSOCIETY OF MILITARY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS — $40,000 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $40,000 · Health+11 more — $210,386 · Health+11 moreOREF — $359,548 · OtherOREFMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $200,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $154,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER — $50,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $50,000 · OtherTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Other+9 more — $145,800 · Other+9 moreVanderbilt University — $200,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $200,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PEN…University of Kentucky Research Foundation — $150,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research F…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College — $50,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $39,960 · EducationNew York University — $38,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $34,000 · Education+4 more — $76,400 · Education+4 more
Health$1,133,096Other$1,074,348Education$933,560

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $349,548 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetVanderbilt University — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $118,162 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIETY OF MILITARY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS — $40,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $39,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $38,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $24,986 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Medical Center — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $13,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE — $13,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $13,200 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetDETROIT EDUCATION & RESEARCH — $13,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL — $8,000 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.

Arthroscopy Associati…Mayo ClinicThe Trustees of Colum…American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…American Society for …Musculoskeletal Trans…Omega Medical Grants …Beth Israel Deaconess…The George Washington…The Children's Hospit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Arthroscopy Association of North AmericaIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthroscopy Association of North America · Mayo Clinic · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · American Society for Surgery of the Hand · Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc · Omega Medical Grants Association · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc · The George Washington University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 49 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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