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Association for Academic Surgery Foundation

To foster and advance the educational and scientific research activities of the association for academic surgery thereby enhancing the quality of care and to generally support education and scientific research concerning surgery and surgical care.

$257k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$390kHealth$282kReligion$90kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $180,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $257,475 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,475 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$30,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISO$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA$30,000
ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $22k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $30k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 21%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $30k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $30k → 8%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $30k → 8%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $30k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $20k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NCH: $30k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $30k → 14%BOSTON UNIVERSITY GENERAL SURGERY ASSOCIATES INC: $10k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $20k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $10k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $10k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $10k → 14%UNIV OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
WI
MI
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
MO
VA
NC
OK
AL
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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$282k · 4 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$282k
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+44%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
EducationHealthRecreation & 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

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +8%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    2× · 2017–2024 · $70k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +58%
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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
University of Miami

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

Education
9
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
Georgetown University

Established in 1789 in the spirit of the new republic, the university was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual…

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $70,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $60,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $30,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences CenterNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $30,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $30,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAUniversity of Wisconsin Madison: $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $20,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $91,844 · EducationASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCUniversity of Chicago: $30,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · EducationBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$450,000Education$281,844Health$30,000Recreation & Sports$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY: $91,844 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR ACADEMIC SURGERY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Association for Academic Surgery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Association for Academic Surgery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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