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Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

EAST is a scientific organization providing leadership and development for early and mid career surgeons active in the care of the injured patient through interdisciplinary collaboration, scholarship, and fellowship.

$144k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$60k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$7.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$60k100%
FY20243$60k100%
FY20233$60k100%
FY20222$43k100%
FY20213$56k67%
FY20204$62k75%
FY20192$46k100%
FY20184$96k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$453kEducation$126kScience & Tech$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Trauma Society Inc$50,56815%
Regents of the University of California$40,0001n/a
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston$40,0001n/a
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc$40,00010%
Baylor Research Institute$40,00010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$40,00010%
Wayne State University Foundation$40,00010%
University Hospitals Health System Inc$40,0001n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$40,0001n/a
Coalition for National Trauma Research$38,00012%
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Trauma Society Inc$50,56815%
Regents of the University of California$40,0001n/a
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston$40,0001n/a
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc$40,00010%
Baylor Research Institute$40,00010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$40,00010%
Wayne State University Foundation$40,00010%
University Hospitals Health System Inc$40,0001n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$40,0001n/a
Coalition for National Trauma Research$38,00012%
Rutgers the State University$16,0002n/a
University of Maryland College Park$16,0002n/a
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Auth Dba Atrium Health$10,0001n/a
Emory University$10,00010%
Children's Hospital of Orange County$10,00010%
University of Arizona$10,0001n/a
Northwestern University$10,00010%
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$10,00010%
University of South Alabama$10,0001n/a
The University of Florida Foundation Inc$6,00010%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$6,00010%
Society of University Surgeons Inc$6,00012%
Beyond Inference Statistical Consul$4,9501n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Trauma Society Inc: $50,568 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMedstar Health Research Institute Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor Research Institute: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayne State University Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for National Trauma Research: $38,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEmory University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Orange County: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of University Surgeons Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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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.

Yale UniversityCT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 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.

About Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

How much does Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma give?
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma reported 3 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $143,916 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (76%), Education (21%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Trauma Society Inc ($51k), Regents of the University of California ($40k), University of Texas Health Science Center Houston ($40k).
Does Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma based?
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma is based in IL.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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