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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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$16MScience & Tech$473kEducation$309kInternational$39kReligion$15k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $58k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND$2,000,000
RUTH PAZ FOUNDATION$16,365
THE GUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION$15,000
SOCIETY OF MILITARY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS$15,000
WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT$11,800
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%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $46k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH: $20k → 8%REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $20k → 10%UC REGENTS: $105k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $38k → 14%ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $25k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $40k → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NY: $40k → 20%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $240k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $126k → 21%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $20k → 17%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $26k → 14%GRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $40k → 13%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 15%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $51k → 9%CARILION MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 20%THE HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE: $20k → 8%SOCIETY OF MILITARY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS: $20k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40k → 19%THE ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $40k → 22%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 10%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $171k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $71k → 21%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $40k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 19%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125k → 14%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $26k → 15%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25k → 19%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $105k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $46k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $45k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $3.2M → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $30k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $2.5M → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $2.0M → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.5M → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.4M → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.1M → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $1.1M → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND: $750k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $40k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 16 repeat orgs$997k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
35

Total granted

$16M
$939k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalRecreation & 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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14M · revenue +6% · 64% of their budget
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $256k · revenue +76%
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $159k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $105k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2020 · $51k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue +82%

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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
University of Miami

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

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Ruth Paz Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 58 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%16%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr22%54%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr18%3%10–20yr15%2%20–35yr14%83%35–55yr22%13%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,302

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

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 57 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
30/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND — $13,550,000 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND+16 more — $676,365 · HealthREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $716,250 · OtherREGENTS OF…MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $159,375 · OtherMEDSTAR HE…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $105,000 · OtherREGENTS UN…RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $93,125 · OtherRECTOR & V…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $60,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON — $51,250 · Other+15 more — $296,250 · Other+15 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $255,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $145,000 · EducationEmory University — $145,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $110,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $86,250 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $40,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $37,500 · Education+6 more — $136,250 · EducationHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC — $24,000 · InternationalGUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICS — $11,800 · InternationalNorthwestern University — $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$14,226,365Other$1,536,250Education$995,500International$50,800Recreation & Sports$20,000

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 budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SURGERY OF THE HAND — $13,550,000 over 8y, 64% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $255,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $171,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $159,375 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $145,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $86,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $66,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $46,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarilion Medical Center — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRADY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDA — $26,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $26,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH VOLUNTEERS OVERSEAS INC — $24,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH PAZ FOUNDATION INC — $16,365 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOCIETY OF MILITARY ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS — $11,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $10,000 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.

The Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…American Orthopaedic …Orthopaedic Research …Plastic Surgery Found…Drexel UniversityThe Children's Hospit…Vanderbilt University…Cornell UniversityMayo ClinicUniversity of Pittsbu…American Heart Associ…
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine · Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation · Plastic Surgery Foundation · Drexel University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · University of Pittsburgh · American Heart Association 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 Society for Surgery of the Hand 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%3%13%28%50%your 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
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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 57 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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