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NAASO The Obesity Society Inc

As the premier scientific medical organization in the obesity field, The Obesity Society (TOS) is uniquely positioned to lead the way in advancing the science-based understanding of the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of obesity.

$353k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$1.8MScience & Tech$110k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $329,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $353,259 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $23,359 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.
$110,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Massachusetts - Chan Medical School$110,000
Regents of the University of Michigan$110,000
Louisana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans$109,900
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $110k → 16%University of Pittsburg Medical Center: $110k → 11%University of Texas San Antonio: $110k → 16%University of Florida: $110k → 19%Regents of the University of Michigan: $110k → 14%University of Alabama at Birmingham: $110k → 16%Hartford Hospital: $110k → 11%The Miriam Hospital: $25k → 14%University of Utah: $110k → 8%The MetroHealth System: $110k → 17%West Virginia University School of Medicine: $110k → 19%Louisana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans: $110k → 23%Allegheny Health Network: $110k → 11%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

MI
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
WV
TN
LA
AL
TX
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.
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
Tufts Medical Center Physicians

The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…

Health
2
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated &

Patient care, research, education and service to the community locally and globally.

Health
4
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

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
University of Minnesota Physicians

To provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.

Health
7
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Inpatient and outpatient healthcare for citizens of the local & surrounding communities.

Health
8
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
9
Thomas Jefferson University

Improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education
10
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
11
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At

As previously noted in this form 990, the mission of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. is to provide extraordinary healthcare services, where the patient comes first, supported by world-class…

Health
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upmc; the most unlike its peers is Hartford Hospital. 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

5 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. 5 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
5/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM: $110,000 · OtherTHE METROHEALTH SYSTEMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $110,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOSTATE OF WEST VIRGINIA: $110,000 · OtherSTATE OF WEST VIRGINIAHIGHMARK HEALTH: $110,000 · OtherHIGHMARK HEALTHUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMAUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $110,000 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINEUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $110,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $109,993 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDLSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER - NEW ORLEANS: $109,900 · OtherLSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER - NEW ORLEANSVanderbilt University Medical Center: $110,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medic…UPMC: $110,000 · HealthUPMCHartford Hospital: $110,000 · HealthHartford HospitalTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $110,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDA…The Miriam Hospital: $25,000 · HealthThe Miriam HospitalUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,319,893Health$465,000Philanthropy$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPMC: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital: $25,000 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.

  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds UPMC ↗
  • Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Miriam Hospital ↗

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.

American Heart Association IncTX15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Ao North America Inc · University of Pittsburgh

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 NAASO The Obesity Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NAASO The Obesity Society Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 18 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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