· Private foundation
Intuitive Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k51 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+6 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $2,823,734 |
| EUROPEAN SOCIETY COLOPROCTOLOGY | $1,857,795 |
| THE GOG FOUNDATION | $749,759 |
| EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS | $365,000 |
| ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS | $275,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $256,700 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $220,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $212,390 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE ASCRS | $180,000 |
| STONY BROOK SURGICAL ASSOCIATES UNIVERSITY FACULTY PRACTICE CORP | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $150,000 |
| MEANDER MEDICAL CENTRE | $141,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $125,871 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $125,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 72% of grant dollars ($34M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($13M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 28% of all-years giving ($13M)
26 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Intuitive Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
76 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +25%- OSOPERATION SMILE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $698k · revenue +18%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $435k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TGTHE GOG FOUNDATION-021022-RESEARCH GRANTone grant, 2022 · $750k
- PAPAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue +39%
- ESEUROPEAN SOCIETY COLOPROCTOLOGYone grant, 2021 · $501k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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 and Research
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
How this is measured
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 259 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SURGICAL FELLOWSHIPS ↗
- Who funds PAN-AFRICAN ACADEMY OF CHRISTIAN SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Health Career Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOMER LAKEVIEW INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kla Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Ross Stores Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Intuitive Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Intuitive Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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