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International Association for the Study of Pain

Iasp brings together scientists, clinicians, health-care providers, and policymakers to stimulate and support the study of pain and to translate that knowledge into improved pain relief worldwide.

$198k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$255kHealth$79kScience & Tech$55k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $198,239 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $178,239 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%WIZEHIVE INC: $9k → 7%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $15k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $15k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS: $20k → 21%YALE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL: $15k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 16%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $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

WA
MN
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
TN
NC
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $340k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 8 regions, $196k to organizations and $144k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

East Asia and the Pacific$91k · 27% · 1 grant · 21 people

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS · CONGRESS AWARDS · FINANCIAL AWARD

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$56k · 17% · 1 grant · 36 people

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS · CONGRESS AWARDS · FINANCIAL AWARD

North America (Canada and Mexico)$47k · 14% · 1 grant · 14 people

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS · FINANCIAL AWARD

Sub-Saharan Africa$46k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS

South America$43k · 13% · 44 people

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS · FINANCIAL AWARD

South Asia$34k · 10% · 1 grant · 25 people

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS · FINANCIAL AWARD

Middle East and North Africa$18k · 5% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: GRANT AWARDS · FINANCIAL AWARD

Russia and Neighboring States$5k · 1% · 3 people

Stated purpose: FINANCIAL AWARD

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.
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
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
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
4
University of Miami

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

Education
5
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
6
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
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
9
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
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
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University; the most unlike its peers is Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New York University: $100,000 · EducationNew York UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYEmory University: $20,000 · EducationEmory UniversityST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INCYale University: $20,000 · EducationYale UniversityDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPI…SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $15,000 · HealthVanderbilt Unive…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $15,000 · OtherWIZEHIVE INC: $9,320 · Other
Education$310,000Health$55,000Other$24,320

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $15,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Association for the Study of Pain funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Association for the Study of Pain. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 13 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $367k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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