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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 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 2024.

Health$2.5MScience & Tech$568kEducation$262kPhilanthropy$20kFood & Nutrition$8k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $244,768, the rows itemized in this filing. The $582,861 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $338,093 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 · 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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $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%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $20k → 12%AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGRONS: $15k → 14%TEXAS SOUTHERN RITE HOSPITAL: $14k → 14%INTERNATIONAL SPINE STUDY GROUP: $138k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $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
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

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MN
IL
WI
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MA
OH
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CA
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DE
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SC
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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

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $30,000 · EducationThe Kansas Univ…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSI…+5 more: $39,360 · Education+5 more
Philanthropy$1,593,522Health$663,830Other$600,336Education$466,792

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 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 budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORTHOCAROLINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York 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
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.

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

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 Scoliosis Research Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scoliosis Research Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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