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Scoliosis Research Society

The purpose of the SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY is to foster the optimal care of all patients with spinal deformities.

$583k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$69k
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$2.5MScience & Tech$568kEducation$262kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $244,768 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $582,861 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $338,093 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
$12,443
Median grant
9
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$69,420
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER$20,000
THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$20,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$12,443
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$12,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS$11,100
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$8,697
ORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE$7,500
MAYO CLINIC RESEARCH$7,358
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN OFFICE OF RESEARCH$6,250
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 11%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $12k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $50k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $12k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%STRAIGHT FORWARD FOUNDATION: $42k → 20%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER: $77k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $36k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $20k → 8%INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GROUP FOUNDATION: $536k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $69k → 12%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $22k → 16%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $43k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $12k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $50k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%STRAIGHT FORWARD SCOLIOSIS: $30k → 20%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL: $30k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN OFFICE OF RESEARCH: $19k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 21%INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GRO: $467k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $48k → 12%CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $38k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $17k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $35k → 17%STRAIGHT FORWARD FOUNDATION: $23k → 20%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL: $30k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $12k → 21%INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GROUP FOUNDATION: $344k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $20k → 12%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGRONS: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDRE: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GRO: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $20k → 12%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGRONS: $15k → 14%TEXAS SOUTHERN RITE HOSPITAL: $14k → 14%INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GROUP: $138k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $20k → 12%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGRONS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGRONS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGRONS: $15k → 14%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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CA
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CO
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DE
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Grants abroad, by region — $229k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$155k · 68% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$42k · 18% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$32k · 14% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 18 repeat orgs$338k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
19

Total granted

$2.7M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+30%

Still filing today

78%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GRP FOUND
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +54% · 28% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2019–2022 · $128k · revenue +59%
  • BT
    BACK TO HEALING
    6× · 2017–2022 · $125k · revenue +197% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2022 · $77k
  • TC
    THE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +18%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +9%

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
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
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
9
Thomas Jefferson University

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…

Education
10
University of Miami

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

Education
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
A T Still University of Health Sciences

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children and the most unlike its peers is International Spine Study Grp Found. 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 65 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr21%6%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr12%15%35–55yr13%59%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%52%10–20yr17%4%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 23% 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%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,372

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

29 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. 29 of the 45 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
26/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GRP FOUND — $1,585,522 · PhilanthropyINTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GRP FOUND+1 more — $8,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $128,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…BACK TO HEALING — $124,832 · HealthBACK TO HEALINGOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $80,000 · HealthOrthopaedic Research a…AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS — $75,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF OR…MAYO CLINIC — $52,630 · HealthMAYO CLINICCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $52,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ME…Children's Hospital Corporation — $39,594 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $30,000 · Health+7 more — $81,774 · Health+7 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $186,940 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVE…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL — $81,128 · OtherTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE …THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY — $77,290 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KA…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVE…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $43,489 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVE…THE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION — $36,000 · OtherTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDAT…+11 more — $125,489 · Other+11 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $109,103 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $89,886 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF R…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $84,500 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIV…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $83,943 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…DREXEL UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSI…The Kansas University Endowment Association — $30,000 · EducationThe Kansas Univ…+5 more — $39,360 · Education+5 more
Philanthropy$1,593,522Health$663,830Other$600,336Education$466,792

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GRP FOUND — $1,585,522 over 5y, 28% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $128,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBACK TO HEALING — $124,832 over 6y, 100% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $109,103 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $89,886 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $84,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $83,943 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS — $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $52,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $52,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $39,594 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL FOUNDATION — $36,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $17,454 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $14,682 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTING SCOLIOSIS STRAIGHT FOUNDATION — $9,988 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCOLIOSIS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $7,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $6,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES BONE & JOINT INITIATIVE NFP — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Foundation for Arthro…American Orthopaedic …Johns Hopkins Univers…American Endowment Fo…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and EducationIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Arthroplasty Research and Education · American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Scoliosis Research Society 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 45 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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