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Federation of State Medical Boards Research & Education Foundation

To support and promote research and education initiatives that strengthen the safety and quality of health care through effective medical regulation.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$489kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$25k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUAM BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS$50,000
NEW MEXICO MEDICAL BOARD$50,000
OREGON MEDICAL BOARD$50,000
WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE$50,000
MAINE BOARD OF LICENSURE IN MEDICINE$20,000
RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE & DISCIPLINE$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FEDERATION OF STATE PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS (FSPHP): $10k → 8%MAYO CLINIC: $25k → 9%INTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPANY COMMISSION: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR CONNECTED HEALTH POLICYPUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%ASSOCIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK (AMSNY): $25k → 17%NEW MEXICO MEDICAL BOARD: $50k → 12%OREGON MEDICAL BOARD: $50k → 12%ADMINISTRATORS IN MEDICINE: $24k → 8%RHODE ISLAND BOARD OF MEDICAL LICENSURE & DISCIPLINE: $15k → 14%OHIO PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAM: $25k → 15%WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $50k → 18%ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (ACCME): $25k → 14%NEVADA STATE BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $5k → 13%KENTUCKY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 15%ARIZONA MEDICAL BOARD: $10k → 11%FEDERATION OF STATE PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%OREGON MEDICAL BOARD: $10k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD: $20k → 8%WEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF MEDICINE: $5k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
AZ
NM
NC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Federation of State Medical Boards Research & Education Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Federation of State Medical Boards Research & Education Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…

Science & Tech
3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
American Association of Medical Society Executives

American association of medical society executives (aamse) is committed to educating and supporting medical society professionals to advance the profession of medical society management, medical societies, and the physicians they serve.

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5
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
6
American Board of Medical Specialties

In collaboration with its member boards, abms creates standards for board certification for physicians and medical specialists. specifically, for initial and continuing certification. abms and its member boards establish rigorous standards…

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7
American College of Physicians

To enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine

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8
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

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9
The American Board of Internal Medicine

See schedule o.the american board of internal medicine (abim) seeks to enhance the quality of health care by certifying internists and subspecialists who demonstrate the knowledge, skills and attitudes essential for excellent patient care.

Health
10
Indiana State Medical Association

The indiana state medical association exists to maximize the leadership and impact of physicians.

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11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Honorhealth Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OREGON MEDICAL BOARD: $50,000 · OtherOREGON MEDICAL BOARDNEW MEXICO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE DEPARTMENT: $50,000 · OtherNEW MEXICO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE DEPARTMENTWEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $50,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINEGUAM CORAL REEF INITIATIVE: $50,000 · OtherGUAM CORAL REEF INITIATIVENORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD: $50,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARDINTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPANY COMMISSION: $25,000 · OtherINTERSTATE MEDICAL LICENSURE COMPANY COMMISSIONADMINISTRATORS IN MEDICINE INC: $23,791 · OtherADMINISTRATORS IN MEDICINE INCState of Maine: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $60,000 · Other+7 moreOHIO PROFESSIONALS HEALTH PROGRAM: $25,000 · HealthOHIO PROFESSIONALS HEALT…HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONMAYO CLINIC: $24,992 · HealthMAYO CLINICPublic Health Institute: $24,907 · HealthPublic Health InstituteFEDERATION OF STATE PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 · HealthFEDERATION OF STATE PHYS…ASSOCIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK: $25,000 · EducationASSOCIATED…ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION: $25,000 · EducationACCREDITAT…
Other$393,791Health$119,899Education$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetASSOCIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO PROFESSIONALS HEALTH PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $24,992 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Health Institute: $24,907 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADMINISTRATORS IN MEDICINE INC: $23,791 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKENTUCKY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ASSOCIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO PROFESSIONALS HEALTH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Public Health Institute ↗
  • Who funds ADMINISTRATORS IN MEDICINE INC ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF STATE PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists IncGA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Federation of State Medical Boards Research & Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Federation of State Medical Boards Research & Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Federation of State Medical Boards Research & Education Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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