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Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education

To improve health and quality of life by supporting hip and knee research, education in joint care, and scientific advances in the treatment of the hip and knee.

$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2024.

Health$739kScience & Tech$199kEducation$182kSocial Science$150kRecreation & Sports$25k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $150,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$50,000
CAMPBELL CLINIC FOUNDATION$50,000
VANDERBILT$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MAYO CLINC ROCHESTER: $50k → 9%THE ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $49k → 10%VANDERBILT: $50k → 14%CAMPBELL CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%ORTHOCAROLINA: $50k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $63k → 11%INDIANA JOINT REPLACEMENT INSTITUTE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 5%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $50k → 19%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50k → 16%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $49k → 14%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $39k → 17%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $44k → 14%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $50k → 17%ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $50k → 22%INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS MEETING ON INFECTION: $38k → 22%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

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
WV
MD
TN
NC

Grants abroad, by region: $50k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$50k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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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 47% of Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Educationlessmore 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$395k · 3 repeat orgs$750k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
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Total granted

$395k
$650k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+21%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
HealthEducationRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RI
    ROTHMAN INSTITUTE
    4× · 2017–2021 · $200k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $107k · revenue +51%
  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2018–2019 · $89k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +21%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

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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
2
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
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
4
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
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
Drexel University

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…

Education
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University of Miami

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

Education
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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
10
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
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Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
12
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern University; the most unlike its peers is Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 21 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROTHMAN INSTITUTE: $199,835 · OtherROTHMAN INSTITUTEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATIONState University of Iowa: $49,580 · OtherState University of IowaUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $49,478 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $43,471 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEEIJRI RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION I: $50,000 · HealthIJRI RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIO…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · HealthORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCVanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $50,000 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF TH…Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $44,000 · HealthOrthopaedic Research and Education Fo…INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS MEETING ON INFECTION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP: $38,333 · HealthINTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS MEETING ON IN…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $106,600 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $99,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANew York University: $89,000 · EducationNew York UniversityWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $50,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH …UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE F…Northwestern University: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$442,364Health$432,333Education$395,050Recreation & Sports$25,000

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $106,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $99,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $89,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $44,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS MEETING ON INFECTION C/O CHESHIRE LAW GROUP: $38,333 over 1y, 17% of budgetNorthwestern University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Scoliosis Research So…Johns Hopkins Univers…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Scoliosis Research SocietyWI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Scoliosis Research Society · Johns Hopkins University · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–90%
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 Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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

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