How much did Children's Orthopaedic Surgery grant in FY2024?

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery reported 6 grants totaling $26,124,592 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Children's Orthopaedic Surgery based?

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery is based in MA.

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery

The Foundation provides orthopaedic surgery services, medical research, and (see Schedule O) educational services to Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

$26M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$26M

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$34MInternational$33kEducation$25kCivil Rights$10kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$5kOther$31k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

advanceactivities

2021

historydancefutureboston's balletosteogenesis imperfectaartadvance

2022

brainhealthcureosteogenesis imperfectacorporationadvancescience

2023

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2024

osteogenesis imperfectacorporationactivities

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k4 grants · $66k
$250k+1 grant · $26M

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$149M

Total assets

Largest grants

Boston Children's Hospital$26,024,500
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation$33,000
One World Surgery$12,500
Setting Scoliosis Straight$10,000
Osteogensis Imperfecta Foundation$10,000
Orthopaedic Research Society$7,400

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$34M · 8 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$34M

$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+26%

Still filing today

100%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthCivil RightsInternationalEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

BC
Boston Children's Hospital
7× · 2018–2024 · $34M · revenue +57%
SS
Setting Scoliosis Straight
4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +44%
OW
One World Surgery
3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +67%

Funded once

AF
Arthritis Foundation
one grant, 2022 · $31k · revenue -21%
CB
Christian Brothers Academy
one grant, 2018 · $25k
Harvard Medical School
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery

The Foundation provides orthopaedic surgery services, medical research, and (see Schedule O) educational services to Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The Foundation also provides care for patients located in…

Health

Spinal Research Foundation

Health

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.

Health

Scoliosis Research and Education

Philanthropy

International Spine Study Grp Found

Philanthropy

Physicians Organization at Children's

The Organization was formed to promote health by coordinating the practice of (see Schedule O) pediatric medicine and related health care services provided by its affiliated member Foundations. The Organization supports the Foundations by…

Health

North American Spine Society

Pursue scientific knowledge and high standards of excellence in the field of spinal disorders.

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Chmc Surgical Foundation Inc

The Foundation provides surgical services and educational services to Boston (see Schedule O) Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The Foundation also provides care for patients regardless of their ability to pay, as well as…

Health

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

Serving our professionals to provide the highest quality musculoskeletal care.

Health

International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery Inc

The organization serves as a scientific, and educational society that provides a forum for discussion and understanding of all aspects of basic and clinical science and other fundamental topics to restore and improve motion and function of…

Education

American Association of Neurosurgeons

The AANS promotes the highest quality of patient care and advances the specialty of neurological surgery.

Health

American Orthopedic Foundation

The purpose of the organization is to provide education to orthodedic surgeons-in-training and funding for clinical and biomechanical research, to the extent permitted to be engaged in by an organization operated exclusively for…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pediatric Spine Foundation and the most unlike its peers is President and Fellows of Harvard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$34,029,882International$32,500Other$31,295Education$25,000Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA12× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation Children's Orthopaedic Surgery 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.

2024

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2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Children's Spine Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 203169071 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Children's Spine Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Children's Orthopaedic Surgery?

Find your warmest path to Children's Orthopaedic Surgery through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Children's Orthopaedic Surgery?

More from the funding graph

Children's Orthopaedic Surgery

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Children's Orthopaedic Surgery?

More from the funding graph