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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$453kEducation$126kScience & Tech$15k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $60,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $143,916 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $83,916 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.

$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Regents of the University of Michig$40,000
The University of Arizona$10,000
University of Kentucky Research Fdn$10,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Beyond Inference Statistical Consul: $5k → 7%Childrens Hospital of Orange Count: $10k → 10%University of California: $40k → 10%Society of University Surgeons: $6k → 14%Baylor Scott and White Research Ins: $40k → 14%CNTR co Natl Trauma Inst: $51k → 16%MedStar Health Research Institute: $40k → 14%Regents of the University of Michig: $40k → 14%Wayne State University School of Me: $40k → 21%University of South Alabama: $10k → 19%Medical College of Wisconsin: $6k → 17%Northwestern University: $10k → 14%Rutgers University: $10k → 6%Rutgers The State University of Ne: $6k → 8%The Administrators of the Tulane Ed: $40k → 23%Coalition for National Trauma Resea: $38k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your 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.

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Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
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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
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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
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University of Miami

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

Education
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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
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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
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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
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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
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Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
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Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
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University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kentucky Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Baylor Research Institute. 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

16 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. 16 of the 26 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $40,000 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $40,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON — $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $40,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $40,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $16,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $16,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITYTHE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA — $10,000 · Other+2 more — $10,950 · OtherAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC — $50,568 · HealthAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INCMAYO CLINIC — $40,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICBaylor Research Institute — $40,000 · HealthBaylor Research InstituteCOALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESEARCH — $38,000 · HealthCOALITION FOR NATIONAL TRAUMA RESE…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUN…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $40,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY FO…Emory University — $10,000 · EducationEmory UniversityUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Re…Yale University — $10,000 · EducationYale UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EducationNorthwestern University — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$272,950Health$178,568Education$132,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN TRAUMA SOCIETY INC — $50,568 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $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 budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Yale UniversityJohns Hopkins Univers…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma?

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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