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Cervical Spine Research Society

CERVICAL SPINE RESEARCH SOCIETY is a national nonprofit organization organized to conduct education seminars, research and programs concerning the effective management of patients with acute and chronic problems of the cervical spine.

$432k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$896kScience & Tech$594kEducation$272kYouth Development$8k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $294,974, the rows itemized in this filing. The $431,974 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $137,000 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $218k
$31,040
Median grant
6
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$90,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$70,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$58,378
EMORY UNIVERSITY$31,040
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$24,756
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$15,000
INDIANA SPINE GROUP PC$5,800
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 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRINGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $75k → 16%UNIVERISTY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 12%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $72k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $15k → 10%LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $10k → 17%TX BACK INSTITUTE RESEARCH FNDTION: $25k → 5%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $25k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS: $25k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $25k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ORTHO: $25k → 8%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%INDIANA SPINE GROUP PC: $6k → 5%SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES: $12k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 23%RUTGERS STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $8k → 8%MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $75k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $25k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $15k → 16%UNIVERISTY OF PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $58k → 22%ARLINGTON NEUROSURGEONS PLLC: $10k → 5%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $15k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $15k → 8%EMORY UNVIERSITY: $14k → 14%VIRGINIA MASON FRANCISCAN HEALTH: $21k → 9%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $58k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $12k → 8%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY DEPT OF NEUROSURGERY: $21k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BOARD: $75k → 14%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%THE BOARD OF TRUST OF UNIV OF IL: $25k → 14%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%ROTHMAN ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE: $14k → 22%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $11k → 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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
MD
TN
SC
MS
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $106k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $100k to organizations and $6k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

South America$75k · 71% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$25k · 24% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$5k · 5% · 5 people

Stated purpose: RESEARCH AWARD PAPERS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$500 · 0% · 1 person

Stated purpose: RESEARCH AWARD PAPERS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$882k · 11 repeat orgs$708k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$882k
$617k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+31%

Still filing today

73%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
HealthEducationRecreation & 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

  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    3× · 2017–2020 · $186k · revenue +51%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $138k · revenue +18%
  • Northwestern University
    4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • UH
    University Health Networkgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $90k · revenue +71%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $90k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
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
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
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
3
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
4
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
University of Miami

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

Education
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
9
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
12
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University Health Network; the most unlike its peers is Texas Back Institute Research 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $99,999 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISUniversity Health Network: $90,000 · OtherUniversity Health NetworkMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $89,806 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $86,452 · OtherROTHMAN INSTITUTEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $75,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISS MEDICAL CENTERMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $74,850 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $52,150 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION: $44,792 · Other+10 more: $164,970 · Other+10 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $165,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSIT…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $138,112 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYEmory University: $65,440 · EducationEmory UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY+1 more: $15,000 · EducationRush University Medical Center: $185,505 · HealthRush University Med…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthVanderbilt Universi…TEXAS BACK INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,999 · HealthTEXAS BACK INSTITUT…VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER: $21,060 · HealthVIRGINIA MASON MEDI…SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES: $12,140 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $79,756 · Recreation & Sports
Other$853,019Education$533,552Health$303,704Recreation & Sports$79,756

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 budgetRush University Medical Center: $185,505 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $138,112 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $79,756 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $74,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $65,440 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROTHMAN INSTITUTE ORTHOPAEDIC FOUNDATION: $44,792 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS BACK INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,999 over 1y, 11% of budgetVIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER: $21,060 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES: $12,140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $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.

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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Cervical Spine Research Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cervical Spine Research Society. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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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Find your warmest path to Cervical Spine Research Society through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 33 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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