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Faculty Practice Foundation Inc & Affiliates

The faculty practice plans ("the plans") were established as not-for-profit corporations operating exclusively for the benefit of boston medical center and boston university chobanian & avedisian school of medicine.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Employment$1.0MHealth$452kEducation$23kPhilanthropy$17k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $5k → 8%INTERNATIONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL SOCIETY: $6k → 10%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $23k → 16%SHIPPY FOUNDATION: $17k → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH: $13k → 14%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $102k → 16%AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY: $10k → 17%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH: $11k → 14%Boston Medical Center: $100k → 16%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH: $11k → 14%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $92k → 16%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH: $10k → 14%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $16k → 16%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH: $10k → 14%MA ASSOCIATION OF MENTAL HEALTH: $10k → 16%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH: $10k → 14%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 16%Orthopaedic Research: $8k → 14%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 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.

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 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 5 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
-13%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +40%
  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $320k · revenue +88%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SF
    SHIPPY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -13%
  • AT
    AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +21%
  • MA
    MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +72%

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.

1
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
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
Massachusetts E-Health Collaborative
4
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
5
Association of Migraine Disorders
Health
6
American College of Physicians Inc

The mission of the american college of physicians (acp), www. acponline.org, is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. acp was founded in 1915 to…

Health
7
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
8
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

9
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
10
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

11
The Cardiovascular Medical Research and Education Fund Inc
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shippy 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,022,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY+2 more — $30,750 · OtherBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $319,900 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORAT…Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $50,500 · HealthOrthopaedic Research and Educa…American Heart Association Inc — $30,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc+1 more — $5,250 · HealthSHIPPY FOUNDATION — $16,809 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · EducationInternational Musculoskeletal Society (IMS) Inc — $6,000 · Education
Other$1,053,250Health$405,650Philanthropy$16,809Education$16,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,022,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $319,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $50,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPPY FOUNDATION — $16,809 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Musculoskeletal Society (IMS) Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Faculty Practice Foundation Inc & Affiliates 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 23%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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