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The Doctors Company Foundation at a glance

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The Doctors Company Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2025.

Health$2.6MEducation$938kScience & Tech$234kRecreation & Sports$127kCommunity Improvement$21k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN$50,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD CO: $84k → 8%NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN: $50k → 16%ANESTHESIA PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATIO: $100k → 9%PROTECT MINNESOTA: $117k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCI: $200k → 10%SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $240k → 17%MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDAT: $274k → 14%THE REGENTS - THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC: $200k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $84k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $127k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $179k → 19%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN: $25k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCI: $50k → 10%SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MOUNT SINA: $234k → 17%MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDAT: $137k → 14%THE REGENTS - THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC: $198k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $167k → 19%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN: $25k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN: $25k → 16%SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDAT: $100k → 14%THE REGENTS - THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $52k → 19%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMEN: $25k → 16%SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $100k → 14%THE REGENTS - THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC: $100k → 14%SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50k → 14%THE REGENTS - THE UNIVERSITY OF MIC: $100k → 14%MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $195k → 14%MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $150k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
DC
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 8 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+34%

Still filing today

63%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCivil RightsScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $346k · revenue +26%
  • MH
    MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $345k · revenue +57%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT
    6× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • IS
    ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MOUNT SINA
    one grant, 2021 · $234k
  • Northwestern Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $127k · revenue +34%
  • PM
    PROTECT MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2023 · $117k · revenue -50%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc

To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…

Health
8
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
9
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Protect Minnesota. 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

11 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. 11 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $698,270 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDAT: $511,169 · OtherMEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $345,427 · OtherMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCI: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCIICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MOUNT SINA: $234,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MOUNT SINAANESTHESIA PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATIO: $100,000 · OtherUMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC: $100,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPE: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $100,000 · Other+3 more: $97,839 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $345,623 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $239,794 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA …PROTECT MINNESOTA: $117,081 · EducationPROTECT MINNESOTAPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $84,008 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $83,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FO…INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $175,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $150,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $126,681 · Recreation & SportsSCRIPPS HEALTH: $25,000 · Health
Other$2,536,705Education$870,206Civil Rights$175,000Science & Tech$150,000Recreation & Sports$126,681Health$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $345,623 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $345,427 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $239,794 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $126,681 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT MINNESOTA: $117,081 over 1y, 20% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $84,008 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $83,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds PROTECT MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Doctors Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Doctors Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% 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 · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to The Doctors Company Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Doctors Company Foundation 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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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