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Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Inc

The society catalyzes and leads change to improve diagnosis and eliminate harm, in partnership with patients, their families, the healthcare community, and every interested stakeholder.

$1.4M
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
17
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.

Health$1.2MEducation$888kCivil Rights$329kHuman Services$83kPhilanthropy$50kRecreation & Sports$40kEmployment$20kScience & Tech$14kOther$930k
02FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $1,317,467 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,438,468 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,001 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $491k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $826k
$49,585
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$124,677
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$94,944
NEW YORK CITY HEALTH & HOSPITAL CORPORATION$93,850
MAYO CLINIC RESEARCH$70,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CARVER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$69,998
INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC$67,813
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$54,879
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$50,000
CEDARS SINAI MEDICIAL CENTER$50,000
BINGHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$50,000
HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
ST JOHN'S WELL CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER$50,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$49,999
MEDSTAR HEALTH INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY AND SAFETY$49,999
YALE UNIVERSITY$49,585
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT PATIENT CARE: $46k → 9%PROJECT PATIENT CARE: $37k → 9%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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NH
ID
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OR
IA
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CA
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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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
22

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+18%

Still filing today

81%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesScience & TechPhilanthropyOther

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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $280k · revenue +64%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    2× · 2021–2023 · $165k · revenue +32%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $145k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $329k · revenue +2%
  • AH
    ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $118k · revenue +31%
  • RU
    Rush University Medical Center
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +6%

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
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
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
3
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
4
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
5
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
6
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

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
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
12
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Jane Beltz Trust Fbo Children's Hospital of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,510

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 55 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)
42/42
Grantees still filing
35/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $144,943 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER …ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $118,106 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $97,813 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION I…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $84,879 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPH…Rush University Medical Center — $70,000 · HealthRush University Medical CenterNORTHERN MAINE MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthCOOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN — $50,000 · HealthBMH INC — $50,000 · HealthTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC — $50,000 · HealthTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC — $49,833 · HealthBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $45,000 · Health+8 more — $198,925 · Health+8 moreMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $134,998 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITU…UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $99,998 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOU…NEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORPORATION — $93,850 · OtherNEW YORK CITY HEALTH AND HOSPIT…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $80,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORAT…MAYO CLINIC — $70,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $61,364 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MI…VETERANS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM HEERSINK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $50,000 · OtherJANE BELTZ TRUST FBO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF — $49,999 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA — $49,965 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE — $47,890 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $34,621 · Other+7 more — $141,079 · Other+7 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $280,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYBaylor College of Medicine — $164,677 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $85,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIV…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $74,593 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…AQUIFER INC — $64,284 · EducationAQUIFER INCUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $49,995 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOU…Yale University — $49,585 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $35,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — $328,978 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE …Project Patient Care — $82,948 · Human ServicesST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH — $50,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$1,159,499Other$963,764Education$888,134Civil Rights$328,978Human Services$82,948Philanthropy$50,000Recreation & Sports$40,000

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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — $328,978 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $280,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $164,677 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $144,943 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $134,998 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $118,106 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $99,998 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $97,813 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $84,879 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Patient Care — $82,948 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $74,593 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAQUIFER INC — $64,284 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNORTHERN MAINE MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOOK COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBMH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $49,995 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $49,585 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - MILTON — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATE HEALTH AND HOSPITALS CORP — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL NURSES CHAPTER OF THE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL C/O MNA — $20,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PRIMARY CARE — $16,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute — $14,133 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH — $8,925 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.

American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…The Bessemer Giving F…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
American Cancer Society IncGA20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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 55 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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