Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Society of Univ Surgeons Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$243kScience & Tech$216kEducation$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$502k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN$30,000
SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS$30,000
SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,516
Individual grant recipient$500
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%STANFORD DIVISION OF VASCULAR SURGE: $30k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UC SAN DIEGO: $30k → 11%SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $30k → 15%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN: $30k → 14%UNIV OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $30k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $30k → 21%TAMARA FITZGERALD: $500 → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $30k → 13%THE OHIO STATE UNIV DEPT OF SURGERY: $30k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $30k → 14%UVA DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS: $13k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN: $30k → 14%UNIV OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $30k → 16%THE OHIO STATE UNIV DEPT OF SURGERY: $15k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF MICHIGAN: $30k → 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

IL
MI
MA
IA
OH
CA
MO
VA
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$195k · 3 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$195k
$431k

Still filing today

0%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
EducationHealthOther

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

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    3× · 2020–2024 · $90k
  • UO
    UNIV OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    2× · 2018–2023 · $60k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIV DEPT OF SURGERY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $45k

Funded once

  • RI
    RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MCGILL UNIV H
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +17%
  • University of Chicagograduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +25%

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

6 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $90,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIV OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $60,000 · OtherUNIV OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMTHE OHIO STATE UNIV DEPT OF SURGERY — $45,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIV DEPT OF SURGERYSOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS INC — $42,500 · OtherSOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS INCRESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MCGILL UNIV H — $30,000 · OtherRESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MCGILL UNIV HREGENTS OF THE UC SAN DIEGO — $30,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UC SAN DIEGOSTANFORD DIVISION OF VASCULAR SURGE — $30,000 · OtherSTANFORD DIVISION OF VASCULAR SURGEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $30,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $30,000 · OtherBOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALUNIVERSITY OF IOWA — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINATHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD — $30,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MDUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $30,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL+5 more — $12,516 · OtherUniversity of Chicago — $30,000 · EducationUniversity of C…University of Miami — $30,000 · EducationUniversity of M…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIV…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 · EducationChildren's Hospital Corporation — $30,000 · Health
Other$550,016Education$95,000Health$30,000

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 budgetSOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS INC — $42,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 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.

  • Who funds SOCIETY OF UNIVERSITY SURGEONS INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds University of Chicago
  • Who funds University of Miami
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Society of Univ Surgeons 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 24 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph