· Public charity
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) mission is improving lives by supporting excellence in orthopaedic research.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k14 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER MN | $300,000 |
| Scottish Rite for Children | $149,654 |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery | $50,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER MN | $50,000 |
| Scottish Rite for Children | $49,999 |
| The Regents of the University of California on Behalf of its Davis Campus | $49,908 |
| The University of Utah | $49,698 |
| Emory University | $25,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California San Francisco | $20,000 |
| Washington University in StLouis | $20,000 |
| Washington University in StLouis | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $20,000 |
| University of Connecticut Health Center | $20,000 |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 13% of Orthopaedic Research and Education 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE7× · 2018–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +36%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +76%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2× · 2019–2021 · $548k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +29%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTONone grant, 2019 · $298k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2018 · $225k
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
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How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 77 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
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 NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Carilion Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ENTERPRISE CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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: Mayo Clinic · University of Pittsburgh · Johns Hopkins University · Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Cancer Society Inc · American Society for Surgery of the Hand · American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Inc · Arthroscopy Association of North America · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
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