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The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships

Fund high quality fellowships in various areas of surgery.

$920k
Granted FY2023
79
Grants FY2023
75
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
75 to 91
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
28
Total assets, FY2023
$276k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202375$870k3%
FY202291$1.9M7%
FY202189$2.1M11%
FY202091$2.3M12%
FY201986$2.4M8%
FY201889$2.3Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Health$8.0MEducation$3.6MArts & Culture$180kHousing & Shelter$160kCrime & Legal$90kScience & Tech$40kReligion$30kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cleveland Clinic Florida a Nonprofit Corporation$410,0006n/a
Upmc Group$390,00060%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston$370,0005n/a
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$310,00060%
University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return$280,00060%
Atrium Health Foundation$270,00060%
Providence Health and Services$260,0006n/a
Indiana University$230,0006n/a
North Shore University Hospital$220,00060%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$200,0006n/a
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All grantees of The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cleveland Clinic Florida a Nonprofit Corporation$410,0006n/a
Upmc Group$390,00060%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston$370,0005n/a
Swedish Medical Center Foundation$310,00060%
University Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return$280,00060%
Atrium Health Foundation$270,00060%
Providence Health and Services$260,0006n/a
Indiana University$230,0006n/a
North Shore University Hospital$220,00060%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$200,0006n/a
Duke University$200,00060%
Hackensack Meridian Health Medical Group- Specialty Care$190,00060%
Washington University$190,00060%
Orlando Health Inc$170,00060%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$170,00060%
Jackson South Community Hospi$160,0006n/a
St Francis Hospital & Health Centers$160,0006n/a
Ohio State University Foundation$150,00030%
Methodist Hospitals of Dallas$150,00060%
Emory University$140,00060%
University Medical Service Association Inc$130,00050%
Geisinger Medical Center$130,00060%
Carolinas Medical Center$130,0006n/a
University of Wisconsin Madison$120,0006n/a
The University of Tennessee$120,0006n/a
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$120,00050%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$120,0005n/a
Vcuvcu Health Campus$120,0006n/a
Mayo Clinic$120,0006n/a
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center$110,00060%
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation$110,00060%
University of Washington$110,0006n/a
Pennsylvania State University$110,0006n/a
Virginia Mason Health System$110,00060%
Main Line Hospitals Inc$110,00060%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$110,0006n/a
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc$110,00060%
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers$110,0006n/a
Johns Hopkins University$110,00060%
Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc$110,00060%
Abington Memorial Hospital$110,00060%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$110,0006n/a
Montefiore Medical Center$110,00060%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$110,0006n/a
Albany Med Health System$110,0006n/a
University of California San Francisco$110,0003n/a
University of Miami$110,00060%
Westchester County Health Care Corporation$100,0005n/a
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa$100,00060%
Inova Health Care Services$100,00060%
Advocate Health and Hospitals Corp$100,00060%
State University of Iowa$90,0006n/a
Vanderbilt University$90,00060%
Cuyuna Regional Medical Center$90,0005n/a
Summa Health$90,00060%
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente$90,0006n/a
Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska$90,0005n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$90,00060%
University of Arizona$90,0006n/a
Oregon Health & Science University$90,0003n/a
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc$90,00050%
University of California Davis$80,7845n/a
The Mount Sinai Hospital$80,00050%
Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia$80,0005n/a
Mayo Clinic$80,0006n/a
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation$80,00050%
Baystate Medical Center Inc$70,00040%
University Surgical Associates Inc$70,00040%
St Luke's Health Network Inc$70,00050%
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc$70,00040%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$60,00040%
Prisma Health$60,00040%
Curators of the University of Missouri$50,0003n/a
Greenville Health Authority$50,0003n/a
University of Florida$50,0003n/a
Reading Hospital Foundation$40,00041%
Summit Medical Staff of Absmc$40,00025%
Medical Faculty Associates Inc$40,00030%
Northwell Health Inc$30,0002n/a
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center$30,00020%
University of Louisville$30,0003n/a
Nyu Winthrop Hospital$30,00020%
University of Maryland College Park$20,0002n/a
University Community Hospital Inc$20,00020%
Princeton Healthcare System a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation$20,00020%
University of Minnesota$20,0002n/a
Colon & Rectal Clinic of Orla$10,0001n/a
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc$10,00010%
Preston Memorial Hospital Corporation$10,00010%
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc$10,00010%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations$10,00010%
The George Washington University$10,00010%
Umass Chan Medical School Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUpmc Group: $390,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSwedish Medical Center Foundation: $310,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity Hospitals Health System Inc Group Return: $280,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAtrium Health Foundation: $270,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Shore University Hospital: $220,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHackensack Meridian Health Medical Group- Specialty Care: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $190,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Health Inc: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Hospitals of Dallas: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Medical Service Association Inc: $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeisinger Medical Center: $130,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWake Forest University Baptist Medical Center: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Mason Health System: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMain Line Hospitals Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLahey Clinic Hospital Inc: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAbington Memorial Hospital: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontefiore Medical Center: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInova Health Care Services: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAdvocate Health and Hospitals Corp: $100,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSumma Health: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc: $90,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $80,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBaystate Medical Center Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Surgical Associates Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Luke's Health Network Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Health: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetReading Hospital Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSummit Medical Staff of Absmc: $40,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMedical Faculty Associates Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Hospital and Medical Center: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNyu Winthrop Hospital: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Community Hospital Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Healthcare System a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 53.

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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.

American Heart Association IncTX28.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · Mayo Clinic · American Cancer Society Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Northwestern University · Yale University · Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Johns Hopkins University · Public Health Institute

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.

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About The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships

How much does The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships give?
The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships reported 79 grants totaling $920,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 75 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (65%), Education (29%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Cleveland Clinic Florida a Nonprofit Corporation ($410k), Upmc Group ($390k), University of Texas Health Science Center Houston ($370k).
Does The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Heart Association Inc, Mayo Clinic, American Cancer Society Inc.
Where is The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships based?
The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships is based in CA.

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 129 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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