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Physician Associate Foundation of the American Academy of Physician Associates

The mission of the physician associate foundation (paf) is to empower pas to improve health through philanthropy and service.

$202k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$205kInternational$122kEducation$30kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$8k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $38,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $202,375 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $164,375 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NSF$11,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT SERVICE LEARNING$10,000
HILLSIDE HEALTH CARE$9,000
NEW YORK STATE SOCIETY OF PAS$8,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OVI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 19%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Physician Associate Foundation of the American Academy of Physician Associates’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Physician Associate Foundation of the American Academy of Physician Associateslessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 6 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
27

Total granted

$119k
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CE
    COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NFP
    3× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +47%
  • TU
    TOURO UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • OV
    OVI & VIOLET INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEALING CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • KH
    KENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
  • FA
    FLORIDA ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -27%
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
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Adventist Healthcare Inc

We extend god's care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

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5
Sunset Park Health Council Inc

The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.

Health
6
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
7
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
8
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
9
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Loma Linda University

Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…

Education
12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Empowerment Nfp; the most unlike its peers is Proyecto Florecer Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOURO UNIVERSITY: $24,919 · OtherTOURO UNIVERSITYCOLORECTAL TEAM OVERSEAS: $17,815 · OtherCOLORECTAL TEAM OVERSEASTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEALING CLINIC: $10,000 · OtherTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HEALING CLIN…JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENT SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT SERVICE LEARNING: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON PHYSICIAN ASS…SALUS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherSALUS UNIVERSITYLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 · OtherLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INCNORTHEAST MEDICAL GROUP INC: $10,000 · OtherNORTHEAST MEDICAL GROUP INCDenver Health and Hospital Authority: $9,880 · OtherDenver Health and Hospital AuthorityTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $8,800 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEYNEW YORK STATE SOCIETY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES INC: $8,000 · OtherGLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATORS INC: $7,965 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $7,955 · OtherPROYECTO FLORECER CORPORATION: $7,550 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $5,349 · OtherRush University Medical Center: $13,860 · HealthRush University Medical Cente…KENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $10,000 · HealthFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGIN…Social Medicine International: $10,000 · HealthSocial Medicine InternationalTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 · HealthTRINITY FREE CLINIC INCRhode Island Hospital: $10,000 · HealthRhode Island HospitalTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES: $10,000 · HealthTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TO…REDWOOD COAST MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $9,960 · HealthREDWOOD COAST MEDICAL SERVICE…CLINICA ESPERANZA HOPE CLINIC: $9,797 · HealthCLINICA ESPERANZA HOPE CLINICHEALTH HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,640 · HealthHEALTH HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL…COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NFP: $26,145 · InternationalCOMMUNITY EMPOW…MAYANZA INC: $10,000 · InternationalMAYANZA INCPARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $9,750 · InternationalPARTNERS FOR AN…HILLSIDE HEALTH CARE INTERNATIONAL: $9,000 · InternationalHILLSIDE HEALTH…WAGNER COLLEGE: $16,297 · EducationWAGNER COLL…FLORIDA ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS INC: $10,000 · EducationFLORIDA ACA…NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $9,855 · EducationNEW YORK IN…Bay Path University: $5,300 · EducationBay Path Un…OVI & VIOLET INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,255 · Human ServicesFOOD STRONG: $10,000 · Food & NutritionOPERATION ENDEAVOR INC: $7,758 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$158,233Health$102,257International$54,895Education$41,452Human Services$20,255Food & Nutrition$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$7,758

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 budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT NFP: $26,145 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $24,919 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOVI & VIOLET INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,255 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetCOLORECTAL TEAM OVERSEAS: $17,815 over 2y, 12% of budgetWAGNER COLLEGE: $16,297 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $13,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD STRONG: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetSocial Medicine International: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOMAGWA MINISTRIES INC DBA TOMAGWA HEALTHCARE MINISTRIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALUS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE COUNTY FREE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHEAST MEDICAL GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD COAST MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $9,960 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLINICA ESPERANZA HOPE CLINIC: $9,797 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHEALTH HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,640 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNEW YORK STATE SOCIETY OF PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH EDUCATORS INC: $7,965 over 1y, 47% of budgetOPERATION ENDEAVOR INC: $7,758 over 1y, 22% of budgetPROYECTO FLORECER CORPORATION: $7,550 over 1y, 53% of budgetBay Path University: $5,300 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.

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.

Direct ReliefNational Association …The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Direct ReliefCA15.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Direct Relief · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Physician Associate Foundation of the American Academy of Physician Associates funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Physician Associate Foundation of the American Academy of Physician Associates. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Bay Path University: 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Medical Group Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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