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International Anesthesia Research Society
The INTERNATIONAL ANESTHESIA RESEARCH SOCIETY (iars) is a nonpolitical, not-for-profit medical society founded in 1922 to advance and support scientific research and education related to anesthesia and the improvement of patient care through research.
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50% of International Anesthesia Research Society’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year International Anesthesia Research Society named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON | $175,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE | $175,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS | $175,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $175,000 |
| WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $170,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $139,597 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $349k 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.
Stated purpose: 2024 IARS MENTORED RESEARCH AWARD
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +76%
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $700k · revenue +51%- SOSOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIOLOGISTS2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKone grant, 2018 · $750k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2020 · $350k
- EUEmory Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $175k · revenue +32%
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.
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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See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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How this is measured
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 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR ANESTHESIOLOGISTS ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization International Anesthesia Research Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Anesthesia Research Society. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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