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Joint Restoration Foundation Inc

The mission of joint restoration foundation is to improve quality of life through innovative solutions for allograft joint repair.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$14MEnvironment$293kEducation$146k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $2,254,557, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,300,863 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,306 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $139k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$55,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES$1,229,320
ALLOSOURCE$770,680
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$83,797
AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE$55,000
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE$45,760
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS$20,000
RUSH SYSTEM FOR HEALTH$20,000
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 11%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $51k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $30k → 7%CONGRESS MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $27k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $64k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION: $12k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $37k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $68k → 12%STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $24k → 7%ALLOSOURCE: $1.9M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS: $20k → 12%CARTILAGE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $9k → 10%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $1.2M → 14%RUSH SYSTEM FOR HEALTH: $20k → 14%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $16k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%CONGRESS MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $42k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $27k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%ALLOSOURCE: $1.6M → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $1.2M → 14%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $11k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%ALLOSOURCE: $791k → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $1.1M → 14%AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE: $55k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $116k → 12%ALLOSOURCE: $771k → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $806k → 14%AMERICAN ORTHOPEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE: $55k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $84k → 12%ALLOSOURCE: $694k → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $595k → 14%AMERICAN ORTHOPEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE: $55k → 14%ALLOSOURCE: $577k → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $453k → 14%AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE: $55k → 14%ALLOSOURCE: $547k → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $423k → 14%ALLOSOURCE: $218k → 8%COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $282k → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
CA
CO
DE
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.
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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 100% of Joint Restoration Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in CO; by stated purpose, 0%.

Joint Restoration Foundation Inclessmore 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 8 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$14M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
HealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • A
    Allosource
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +28%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER/COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $6.1M · revenue +522%
  • AO
    AMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SP
    STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +2%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -39%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +30%
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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Cardiac Surgery Research & Education Fou
Health
2
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
3
The Cardiovascular Medical Research and Education Fund Inc
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4
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
5
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
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
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
8
Illinois Center for Orthopedic Research and Education Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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10
Columbus Medical Research Foundation
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11
New York University

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.

Education
12
Seattle Science Foundation

Dedicated to advancing the quality of patient care through education, research, innovation and technology.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steadman Philippon Research Institute; the most unlike its peers is Congress Medical 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Allosource: $7,067,357 · HealthAllosource+8 more: $437,995 · Health+8 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER/COMMUNITY TISSUE SERVICES: $6,132,643 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER/COMMUN…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $293,489 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $83,260 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $77,694 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $45,760 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Education
Health$7,505,352Philanthropy$6,132,643Other$500,203Education$100,000

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 budgetAllosource: $7,067,357 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN ORTHOPAEDIC SOCIETY FOR SPORTS MEDICINE: $220,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $106,038 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $45,760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESS MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $36,800 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $24,023 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush System for Health: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $11,831 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $10,195 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARTILAGE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $9,108 over 1y, 5.8% 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.

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Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Joint Restoration Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joint Restoration Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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.
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How do I get to Joint Restoration Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Joint Restoration Foundation Inc 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 16 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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