· Public charity
Plastic Surgery Foundation
The psf promotes the highest standards in research and education for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $728,667 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $749,567 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $110,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $99,860 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC | $60,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $59,974 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $49,875 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $49,849 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVER | $44,535 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS | $15,000 |
| BREASTORATION INC | $15,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA | $10,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF CALIFORNIADAVIS | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER6× · 2018–2025 · $418k · revenue +70%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +44%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- PAPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +22%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +34%
CITY OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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Healthcare, education, and research
To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is The Green Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 108 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FRESH START CARING FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE IN RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Mission Plasticos ↗
- Who funds BREASTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Society for Surgery of the Hand · University of Southern California · Trustees of Boston University · American Heart Association Inc · Northwestern University · Johns Hopkins University · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Plastic Surgery Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
- Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.