· Public charity
Ao North America Inc
Promoting excellence in patient care and outcomes in trauma and musculoskeletal disorders by:- improving performance through education- optimizing clinical treatment pathways and guidelines- promoting innovation through research and developmentour purpose is to serve as a credible and validated resource for continuing professional…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k62 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k14 grants · $851k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $101,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $80,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $74,730 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORTHOPAEDIC CENTER | $65,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $58,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $55,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $52,500 |
| CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AT CHATTANOOGA | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | $50,000 |
| ORTHOCAROLINA SPINE CENTER | $45,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
65 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- ANAO NORTH AMERICA CHARITABLE FUND3× · 2020–2022 · $4.6M · revenue +46% · 59% of their budget
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $564k · revenue +16%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMOREone grant, 2020 · $88k
- OSORTHOCAROLINA SPINE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $65k
- ALALPHA LAMBDA DELTAone grant, 2020 · $65k
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.
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…
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…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Spiegel Foundation. 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.
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 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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. 62 of the 109 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.
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 AO NORTH AMERICA CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Yale University - Subordinates ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds SHOCK TRAUMA ASSOCIATES PA ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Omega Medical Grants Association · Rheumatology Research Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancement · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · American Cancer Society Inc · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Johns Hopkins University
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 Ao North America Inc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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