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Emergency Medicine Foundation
The EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION promotes education and research that develops career emergency medicine researchers, improves patient care, and provides the basis for effective health policy
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $750k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS | $986,839 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $150,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $100,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $100,000 |
| JOAN & SANFORD I WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $99,900 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES | $99,890 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $15,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| MASSACHUSSETS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $10,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $9,317 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS5× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +8%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI8× · 2017–2025 · $699k · revenue +58%- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $410k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2022 · $160k
- SHSumma Healthone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +22%
- WMWeill Medical College of Cornell Universone grant, 2023 · $94k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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…
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
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.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
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.…
Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 74 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Summa Health ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Yale University · Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · University of Pittsburgh · American Cancer Society Inc · Institute for Clinical Research Inc · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Mayo Clinic · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
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 Emergency Medicine Foundation 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.
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Cooper Health System a New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation — 0% of income from government
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.
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