· Public charity
Ases Foundation
The mission of the organization is to foster scientific advances and enhance the study of shoulder and elbow surgery.
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 13 grants below total $257,837 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,233,344 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $975,507 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 $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY ORTHOPAEDIC SERVICES INC | $52,698 |
| MUSCULOSKELETAL-ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $36,428 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS | $29,551 |
| BOSTON SPORTS AND SHOULDER CENTER RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $29,300 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $27,790 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $14,350 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $11,027 |
| PALM BEACH RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,578 |
| BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $7,578 |
| SABESAN ORTHOPAEDICS RESEARCH INC | $5,580 |
| HSS FLORIDA PHYSICIANS LLC | $3,456 |
| ORGANIZATIONAL GRANTS UNDER 5000 | $501 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% 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 +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI5× · 2017–2022 · $138k · revenue +58%- RURush University Medical Center5× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +51%
- WBWILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL5× · 2017–2022 · $116k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2022 · $56k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTONone grant, 2022 · $49k
- MMMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $49k
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).
Research and education is at the core of who we are. tria orthopaedic center research institute, housed within tria orthopaedic center, advances the science of orthopaedic medicine through a rich blend of education and research programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Union Memorial Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Cincinnati Shoulder and Elbow Research and Education 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.
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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 59 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 FOUNDATION FOR ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHOULDER AND ELBOW RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ORTHOPAEDIC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds HH MEDSTAR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Kerlan - Jobe Orthopaedic Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSCULOSKELETAL-ORTHOPEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Baptist Healthcare System Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BONE AND JOINT INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
- Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
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 Cancer Society Inc · Arthroscopy Association of North America · The Bessemer Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ases Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% 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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