· Public charity
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc
We provide innovative human biologic solutions that maximize the gift of donation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $693,681 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,270,444 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $576,763 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k13 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $85,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $66,667 |
| STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $62,500 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA LA | $49,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $41,667 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $41,667 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $33,333 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $31,250 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $25,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF IL | $20,833 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI | $20,833 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $20,833 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $667k · revenue +28%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $496k · revenue +63%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $486k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONSone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +4%
- TFTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHone grant, 2023 · $61k · revenue +7%
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +51%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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.
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)
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…
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLASTIC SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds MUSCULOSKELETAL TUMOR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Heart Association Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Mayo Clinic · American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · University of Southern California · Emory University · American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine · University of Delaware · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.