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North American Spine Society

The society was formed to improve the quality of scientific knowledge and pursuit of high standards of excellence in patient care, clinical practice and related sciences among professionals in the field of spinal disorders.

$145k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$53k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$16M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations North American Spine Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$53k100%
FY20234$96k100%
FY20222$88k50%
FY20212$66k100%
FY20203$128k100%
FY20194$78k100%
FY20182$90k100%
FY20173$137kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$853kScience & Tech$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
SC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$69,20120%
Colorado State University$51,6441n/a
University of California San Francisco$50,0001n/a
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$49,05010%
Rutgers the State University$46,9051n/a
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining The$46,55010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$45,4431n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$43,8751n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$40,0001n/a
Clarkson University$40,00010%
Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of North American Spine Society by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$69,20120%
Colorado State University$51,6441n/a
University of California San Francisco$50,0001n/a
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$49,05010%
Rutgers the State University$46,9051n/a
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining The$46,55010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$45,4431n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$43,8751n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$40,0001n/a
Clarkson University$40,00010%
University of Pittsburgh$39,85010%
Clemson University$39,6001n/a
Washington University$39,02310%
Wayne State University$36,9151n/a
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center$30,00019%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$20,3551n/a
University of California Davis$13,0001n/a
The Ohio State University$10,0001n/a
Brian Karamian$10,0001n/a
University Hospitals Health System Inc$8,2741n/a
Stephen Daniel Lockey IV$6,8281n/a

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

Compare North American Spine Society with peer funders

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How do I get to North American Spine Society?

Find your warmest path to North American Spine Society 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.

About North American Spine Society

How much does North American Spine Society give?
North American Spine Society reported 2 itemized grants totaling $53,000, out of $144,925 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does North American Spine Society fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (99%), Science & Tech (1%).
Who are North American Spine Society's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Johns Hopkins University ($69k), Colorado State University ($52k), University of California San Francisco ($50k).
Does North American Spine Society fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as North American Spine Society?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is North American Spine Society based?
North American Spine Society is based in IL.

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 23 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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