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Texas Medical Association

The TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans.

$682k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$233k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$3.9MEducation$232kPublic Benefit$24k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $546,564, the rows itemized in this filing. The $681,752 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,188 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.
$126,347
Median grant
1
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$233,072
TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION$126,347
TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE$119,779
TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY$67,366
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $25k → 10%SMITH COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 12%UT SOUTHWESTERN TMA MEDICAL STUDENT CHAPTER: $7k → 14%BEXAR COUNTY MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 16%HARRIS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 16%TEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%HARRIS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 16%TEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND TEXAS: $25k → 16%TEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND TEXAS: $10k → 16%BEXAR COUNTY MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $425k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $410k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $251k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $237k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $233k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $230k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $195k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $132k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $126k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $126k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $125k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $122k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $120k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $112k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $104k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $104k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $103k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $97k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $90k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $85k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $78k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $67k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $61k → 10%PHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND: $58k → 10%PHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND: $58k → 10%PHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND: $58k → 10%PHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND: $58k → 10%TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $40k → 10%TMA PRACTICEEDGE LLC: $16k → 10%TEXAS ACADEMY OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS: $8k → 10%AUSTIN BLACK PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 10%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 10 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$4.1M
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-8%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHealthEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • TM
    TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +13% · 43% of their budget
  • TM
    TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $663k · revenue +67% · 72% of their budget
  • TH
    TEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TA
    TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT ACCESS
    one grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -19%
  • TP
    TMA PRACTICEEDGE LLC
    one grant, 2019 · $16k
  • SC
    SMITH COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -8%
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
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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2
Texas Pharmacy Association

The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.

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3
Travis County Medical Society

Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.

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4
Tarrant County Medical Society

Supporting and advancing the science of medicine and educating its members.

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5
Texas Ophthalmological Association

Education in advancing ophthalmological medicine

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6
American College of Emergency Physicians Texas Chapter

The texas college of emergency physicians exists to promote quality emergency care for all patients and to represent the professional interests of our members.

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7
American College of Physicians Texas Chapter

Promote quality health care for all texans by strenghtening the practice of internal medicine.

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8
Texas Academy of Family Physicians

The texas academy of family physicians is dedicated to the promotion of a health care environment that values the vital role of family physicians in providing quality, comprehensive care to all texans.

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9
Texas Osteopathic Medical Association

To promote health care excellence for the people of texas, the philosophy and principles of osteopathic medicine, and loyally embrace the family of the osteopathic profession and serve their unique needs.

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10
Texas Orthopaedic Association

To ensure outstanding musculoskeletal care for texans through educational and advocacy efforts.

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11
Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians

The texas society of psychiatric physicians is dedicated to developing the highest quality of comprehensive psychiatric care for patients, families and communities.

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12
Texas Society of Anesthesiologists

The purpose of the texas society of anesthesiologists is to advance, promote and support the practice of the medical specialty of anesthesiology in the state of texas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Medical Association Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $1,309,482 · EducationTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATIONTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $560,814 · EducationTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARYTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $1,141,420 · Community ImprovementTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDA…TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT ACCESS: $45,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $7,500 · Community ImprovementTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $662,559 · OtherTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOC…+5 more: $55,941 · Other+5 morePHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND: $232,000 · HealthTEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $70,000 · Health+1 more: $7,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $35,000 · Civil RightsTexas Conservative Coalition Research Institute: $24,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,870,296Community Improvement$1,193,920Other$718,500Health$309,500Civil Rights$35,000Arts & Culture$24,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION: $1,309,482 over 6y, 43% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $1,141,420 over 6y, 18% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ALLIANCE: $662,559 over 6y, 72% of budgetTEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $560,814 over 6y, 70% of budgetPHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND: $232,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetTEXAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT ACCESS: $45,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Conservative Coalition Research Institute: $24,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBEXAR COUNTY MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $14,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHarris County Medical Society: $11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMITH COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $8,295 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTexas Academy of Physician Assistants: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAUSTIN BLACK PHYSICIANS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Texas Medical Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Texas Medical Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Texas Medical Association?

    Find your warmest path to Texas Medical Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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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