· Public charity
Arthroscopy Association of North America
The mission of the Arthroscopy Association of North America is to advance the art and science of arthroscopy and minimally invasive surgery through education, skills assessment and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $532,127 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $660,269 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $128,142 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 $10k15 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $166k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Geneva Foundation | $156,250 |
| Henry M Jackson Foundation | $62,500 |
| Piedmont Orthopaedic Foundation | $50,000 |
| Rush University Medical Center | $44,798 |
| Cleveland Clinic Education Foundation | $18,424 |
| Duke University Attn E Berthold | $17,326 |
| DiFelice Foundation for Orthopaedics Inc | $12,500 |
| The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | $12,500 |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison GAR Account | $12,500 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | $12,222 |
| American Sports Medicine Institute | $11,848 |
| Kerlan Jobe Orthopaedic Foundation | $11,848 |
| Steadman Philippon Research Institute | $11,677 |
| Mississippi Sports Medicine Foundation | $9,874 |
| Southern California Orthopedic | $9,874 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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
- RURush University Medical Center7× · 2018–2024 · $241k · revenue +39%
- ARANDREWS RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $194k · revenue +60%
- VHVIRTUA HEALTH INC2× · 2022–2023 · $160k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AAArthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundationone grant, 2018 · $2.5M · revenue -71% · 53% of their budget
- SMSports Medicine fellowship grantsone grant, 2017 · $460k
- IISAKOSone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Henry M Jackson 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 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 85 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 Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kerlan - Jobe Orthopaedic Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRTUA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Southern California Orthopedic Research and Education Center ↗
- Who funds American Sports Medicine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alvarado Knee Research Institute Inc dba The Docere Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH OF VIRGINIA ATTN MORGAN TURNBULL ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAWKINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HENRY M JACKSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRIA ORTHOPAEDIC CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
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: Omega Medical Grants Association · American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons · Mayo Clinic · American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine · American Cancer Society Inc · Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation · Ases Foundation · Rheumatology Research Foundation · The George Washington University · University of Pittsburgh
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 Arthroscopy Association of North America 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
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Virtua Health Inc — 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.