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Pennsylvania Medical Society

The PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve.

$919k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$420k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$3.3M
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $350k
  • $250k+1 grant · $420k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$212M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY$419,837
SUNFLOWER HEALTH$100,000
EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC$50,000
ALTRUMED LLC$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$50,000
CARDIOLOGY CONSULTANTS$50,000
GRAFTABLE INC$50,000
ERIE RETINA RESEARCH$49,507
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$49,298
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$45,204
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CHESTER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS: $17k → 6%GRAFTABLE INC: $50k → 7%THE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $525k → 8%DAUPHIN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%SUNFLOWER HEALTH: $100k → 9%ALLEGHENY-SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA DIRECT PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION: $17k → 11%GLOBAL PAIN MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS INC: $50k → 12%ERIE RETINA RESEARCH: $50k → 15%DO NOT HARM PLLC: $50k → 15%ALTRUMED LLC: $50k → 22%ADVOCARE LLC: $50k → 7%GRAFTABLE INC: $50k → 7%FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $420k → 8%LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANCASTER-LEBANON LVI: $40k → 9%EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%SOUTH CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SICKLE CELL COUNCIL: $17k → 12%RHEO TEK MEDICAL LLC: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $49k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $50k → 22%EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $45k → 22%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 22%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $49k → 22%THOMAS JEFFERSON HOSPITAL: $120k → 22%CARDIOLOGY CONSULTANTS: $50k → 22%CARDIOLOGY CONSULTANTS: $50k → 22%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 5 repeat orgs$759k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$460k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+5%

Still filing today

60%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +85%
  • EA
    EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +126%
  • TU
    Temple University Hospital Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $95k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    2× · 2019–2020 · $120k · revenue +79%
  • DN
    DO NOT HARM PLLC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k
  • RT
    RHEO TEK MEDICAL LLC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k
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.

1
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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2
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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3
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
4
Pinnacle Health Medical Services

Pinnacle health medical services is a charitable organization dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all the people of central pennsylvania by providing primary, clinic, family and specialty physician…

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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
Lehigh Valley Physician Group

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…

Health
9
Geisinger Medical Center

Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community services.

Health
10
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Geisinger Clinic; the most unlike its peers is Global Pain Management Solutions. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2,127,883 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETYEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthTemple University Hospital Inc: $95,204 · Health+2 more: $66,684 · HealthGRAFTABLE INC: $100,000 · OtherGRAFTABLE INCSUNFLOWER HEALTH: $100,000 · OtherSUNFLOWER HEALTHCARDIOLOGY CONSULTANTS: $100,000 · OtherCARDIOLOGY CONSULTANTSDO NOT HARM PLLC: $50,000 · OtherDO NOT HARM PLLCALTRUMED LLC: $50,000 · OtherALTRUMED LLCRHEO TEK MEDICAL LLC: $50,000 · OtherRHEO TEK MEDICAL LLCGLOBAL PAIN MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS: $50,000 · OtherGLOBAL PAIN MANAGEMENT …ADVOCARE LLC: $49,972 · OtherADVOCARE LLCERIE RETINA RESEARCH: $49,507 · OtherERIE RETINA RESEARCHHIGHMARK HEALTH: $40,000 · OtherHIGHMARK HEALTH+3 more: $43,368 · Other+3 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $119,948 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $49,298 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $49,251 · EducationLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $40,000 · Education
Health$2,389,771Other$682,847Education$258,497

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2,127,883 over 8y, 19% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $119,948 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTemple University Hospital Inc: $95,204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PAIN MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS: $50,000 over 2y, 91% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $49,298 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $49,251 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA: $40,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSouth Central Pennsylvania Sickle Cell Council: $16,684 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetDAUPHIN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

The Children's Hospit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Pennsylvania Medical Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Medical Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 22 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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