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Institute for Natural Medicine

At our mission's core is a commitment to reversing chronic disease in the united states through preventive care and evidence-informed natural medicine.

$196k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
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$1.3MEducation$315kCommunity Improvement$30k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $190,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $195,642 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,642 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.
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$836k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE$20,000
SAGEMED$20,000
CHAMPLAIN CENTER FOR NATURAL MEDICINE$20,000
NATURAL MEDICINE OF SEATTLE$20,000
WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE$15,000
LIVE WELL CLINIC$15,000
INSTITUTE OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE$15,000
YAKIMA INTEGRATIVE HEALTH$15,000
FERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTH$15,000
EMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC$15,000
ONE CONNECTION HEALTHCARE$10,000
NATUROPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION$10,000
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CENTER FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING: $20k → 11%LIVE WELL CLINIC: $20k → 11%LOKAHI HEALTH CENTER: $15k → 15%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $90k → 14%WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE: $15k → 12%VIDA INTEGRATED HEALTH: $20k → 9%YAKIMA INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $15k → 17%ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $25k → 7%CHAMPLAIN CENTER FOR NATURAL MEDICINE: $20k → 10%CENTER FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING: $20k → 11%LIVE WELL CLINIC: $15k → 11%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $74k → 14%INSTITUTE OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE: $20k → 9%YAKIMA INTEGRATIVE HEALTH: $15k → 17%CHAMPLAIN CENTER FOR NATURAL MEDICINE: $15k → 10%CENTER FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING: $15k → 11%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $74k → 14%HEALTHTOPIA: $20k → 11%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $74k → 14%HEALTHTOPIA: $20k → 11%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $74k → 14%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $56k → 14%FERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTH: $35k → 9%SAGEMED: $23k → 9%FERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTH: $35k → 9%SAGEMED: $20k → 9%FERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTH: $25k → 9%SAGEMED: $20k → 9%ONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINE: $25k → 9%ONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINE: $20k → 9%EMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC: $20k → 9%EMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC: $20k → 9%EMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC: $20k → 9%EMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC: $20k → 9%EMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC: $20k → 9%ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $20k → 9%ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $20k → 9%FEDERAL WAY NATUROPATHY: $20k → 9%NATURAL MEDICINE OF SEATTLE: $20k → 9%NATURAL MEDICINE OF SEATTLE: $20k → 9%NATURAL MEDICINE OF SEATTLE: $20k → 9%NATURAL MEDICINE OF SEATTLE: $20k → 9%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

VT
WA
IL
OR
CA
DC
HI
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 18 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$1.5M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+311%

Still filing today

17%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • AA
    American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
    6× · 2017–2022 · $441k · revenue -8%
  • FV
    FERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTH
    6× · 2018–2024 · $135k
  • AI
    ALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $120k

Funded once

  • FN
    FLORIDA NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +311% · 87% of their budget
  • LH
    LOKAHI HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • SH
    SPARK HEALTH NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Association of Naturopathic Physicians: $440,582 · OtherAmerican Association of Naturopathic PhysiciansFERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTH: $135,000 · OtherFERN VALLEY NATURAL HEALTHALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINE: $120,000 · OtherALPINE INTEGRATED MEDICINEEMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINIC: $115,000 · OtherEMERALD CITY NATUROPATHIC CLINICSAGEMED: $103,000 · OtherSAGEMEDONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINE: $100,000 · OtherONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINENATURAL MEDICINE OF SEATTLE: $75,000 · OtherONE SKY FAMILY MEDICINE: $70,000 · OtherLIVE WELL CLINIC: $58,333 · OtherCENTER FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING: $55,000 · Other+9 more: $240,000 · Other+9 moreFLORIDA NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION INC: $18,400 · HealthWHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE: $15,000 · HealthILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $30,250 · Community ImprovementNATUROPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Education
Other$1,511,915Health$33,400Community Improvement$30,250Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Association of Naturopathic Physicians: $440,582 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS: $30,250 over 2y, 36% of budgetNATUROPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetFLORIDA NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION INC: $18,400 over 1y, 87% of budgetWHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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 American Association of Naturopathic Physicians ↗
  • Who funds ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS ↗
  • Who funds NATUROPATHIC MEDICAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WHOLE SYSTEMS HEALTHCARE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Institute for Natural Medicine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Institute for Natural Medicine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Institute for Natural Medicine 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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