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Plastic Surgery Foundation

The psf promotes the highest standards in research and education for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$110k
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 2025.

Health$4.4MScience & Tech$2.4MEducation$1.3MRecreation & Sports$100kEnvironment$20kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $728,667, the rows itemized in this filing. The $749,567 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $20,900 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $430k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION OF EL PASO$15,000
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS$15,000
BREASTORATION INC$15,000
ST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$15,000
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
BREAST RECONSTRUCTIONORG INC$10,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARINLINK INC BREASTORATION INK: $15k → 8%BRAVE COALITION FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%MARINLINK INC BREASTORATION INK: $15k → 8%MARINLINK INC BREASTORATION INK: $10k → 8%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

WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
LA
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 50 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
50

Total granted

$6.0M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+23%

Still filing today

70%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    6× · 2018–2025 · $418k · revenue +70%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +44%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • PA
    PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +22%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $110k · revenue +34%
  • CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +10%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
7
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
8
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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9
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

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…

Health
10
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
11
University Medical Center Inc

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.

Health
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; 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.
04the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 108 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
56/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $731,410 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $678,635 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANFRESH START CARING FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $543,444 · OtherFRESH START CARING FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $335,543 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAIndiana University School of Medicine: $170,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $139,000 · Other+39 more: $1,237,410 · Other+39 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $542,639 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE L…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $299,559 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $284,648 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $227,990 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYYale University: $111,274 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $109,921 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $99,986 · Education+12 more: $498,898 · Education+12 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $418,218 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CA…PALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH: $300,000 · HealthPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUT…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $151,500 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDA…CITY OF HOPE: $100,000 · HealthAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS: $95,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $85,000 · HealthALLIANCE IN RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Health+31 more: $734,605 · Health+31 moreNorthwestern University: $99,849 · Recreation & SportsBREAST RECONSTRUCTION ORG INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyThe Green Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyKALISPELL REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $12,060 · PhilanthropyMARIN LINK INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesBRAVE Coalition Foundation: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$3,835,442Education$2,174,915Health$1,959,323Recreation & Sports$99,849Philanthropy$52,060Human Services$50,000

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 budgetFRESH START CARING FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $543,444 over 3y, 48% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $542,639 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $418,218 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO VETERANS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $299,559 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $284,648 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $227,990 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $151,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $111,274 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $109,921 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $99,986 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $99,849 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PLASTIC SURGEONS: $95,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $85,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $76,529 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE IN RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $62,846 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $59,872 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $59,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $58,759 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREASTORATION INC: $55,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMission Plasticos: $55,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $49,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY CARE CLINIC FOUNDATION LTD: $40,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMARIN LINK INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEVELYNS BFF BREAST FRIENDS FOREVERINC: $35,000 over 3y, 54% of budgetMy Hope Chest: $35,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetUniversity Medical Center Foundation of El Paso: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN: $30,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DEL CANCER DE MAMA: $20,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetBREAST RECONSTRUCTION ORG INC: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $19,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUPMC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 BREASTORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mission Plasticos ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗

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.

American Cancer Socie…Vanderbilt University…Yale UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…American Society for …University of Souther…Trustees of Boston Un…American Heart Associ…Northwestern Universi…Johns Hopkins Univers…Morgan Stanley Global…
American Cancer Society IncGA17.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Plastic Surgery Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Plastic Surgery Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 108 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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