How much does Ao North America Inc give?

Ao North America Inc reported 87 grants totaling $2,333,778 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Ao North America Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (59%), Education (30%), Religion (8%).

Who are Ao North America Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ao North America Charitable Fund ($4.6M), University of California San Francisco ($887k), University of Washington ($740k).

Does Ao North America Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ao North America Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Heart Association Inc, Omega Medical Grants Association, Rheumatology Research Foundation.

Where is Ao North America Inc based?

Ao North America Inc is based in PA.

Ao North America Inc

Ao North America Inc at a glance

· 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…

$2.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$101k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$12MEducation$6.0MReligion$1.7MArts & Culture$210kScience & Tech$164kHuman Services$20kSocial Science$20kYouth Development$15k

02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $89k
$10k–50k62 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k14 grants · $851k

$24,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON	$101,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO	$80,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER	$74,730
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORTHOPAEDIC CENTER	$65,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY	$65,000
YALE UNIVERSITY	$58,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	$55,000
MAYO CLINIC	$52,500
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER	$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE AT CHATTANOOGA	$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON	$50,000
R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER	$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER	$50,000
CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER	$50,000
SWEDISH NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE	$45,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$18M · 65 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$18M

$983k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+38%

Still filing today

51%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

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

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AO NORTH AMERICA CHARITABLE FUND
3× · 2020–2022 · $4.6M · revenue +46% · 59% of their budget
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
5× · 2020–2024 · $564k · revenue +16%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
5× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +55%

Funded once

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
one grant, 2020 · $88k
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +44%
AL
ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA
one grant, 2020 · $65k

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.

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

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

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

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

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…

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of Miami

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

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 109 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

51/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$8,469,047Health$7,629,770Education$3,592,890Recreation & Sports$45,000Science & Tech$40,000Human Services$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

American Heart Association IncTX20.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ao North America Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ao North America Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

9report 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.

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