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Saem Research Foundation

To improve health by investing in academic emergency medicine career development, research, and education.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$4.8MScience & Tech$1.1MEducation$268k
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $970,496 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,084,330 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $113,834 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$300,000
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$150,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$99,960
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL$50,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$26,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
DENVER HEALTH$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$20,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$20,000
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL$20,000
HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$19,536
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$10,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH SYSTEM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $25k → 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $150k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $110k → 7%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION AT HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL: $100k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NY: $21k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $150k → 16%HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN: $20k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $300k → 14%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 21%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%YALE CENTER FOR MEDICAL SIMULATION: $30k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $313k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $25k → 13%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $300k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%DENVER HEALTH: $300k → 12%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 18%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL COLLEGE: $300k → 15%ADVOCATE HEALTH CARE NETWORK: $99k → 7%RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%GEMSTAR: $38k → 4%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $105k → 7%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $29k → 16%MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $300k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $25k → 13%BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE: $25k → 14%DENVER HEALTH: $25k → 12%TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 18%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25k → 15%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $103k → 22%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $63k → 12%DENVER HEALTH: $300k → 12%BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $26k → 7%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $300k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $150k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $150k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 24 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
41

Total granted

$3.4M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+25%

Still filing today

50%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Rhode Island Hospital
    4× · 2017–2024 · $338k · revenue +68%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2022 · $323k · revenue +41%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2020–2023 · $264k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +41%
  • DH
    Denver Health and Hospital Authority
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
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
6
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
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
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai and the most unlike its peers is Gem Star Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%43%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,497

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
36/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $487,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $382,380 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $325,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $325,000 · OtherDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATIONDenver Health and Hospital Authority — $300,000 · OtherDenver Health and Hospital AuthorityIndiana University School of Medicine — $155,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $150,000 · OtherINDIANA UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · Other+27 more — $424,993 · Other+27 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $390,826 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND …DUKE UNIVERSITY — $323,465 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $263,610 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHBaylor College of Medicine — $179,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineYale University — $162,000 · EducationYale UniversityOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY F…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $102,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $70,000 · Education+11 more — $217,293 · Education+11 moreRhode Island Hospital — $337,500 · HealthRhode Island Hos…Rush University Medical Center — $109,960 · HealthRush University …LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES BIOM…ADVOCATE HEALTH CARE NETWORK — $99,106 · HealthADVOCATE HEALTH …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPI…DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $40,000 · Health+11 more — $163,036 · Health+11 moreNorthwestern University — $300,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,969,373Education$1,958,694Health$899,602Recreation & Sports$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $390,826 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $337,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS FOUNDATION — $325,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $323,465 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $263,610 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $179,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $162,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $109,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $102,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADVOCATE HEALTH CARE NETWORK — $99,106 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEM STAR FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 1y, 56% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC — $34,793 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $19,536 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIAN AFFILIATE GROUP OF NEW YORK PC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY — $6,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW LEVITT CENTER FOR SOCIAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Yale UniversityAmerican Academy of P…American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Yale UniversityCT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yale University · American Academy of Pediatrics · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Saem Research 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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