· Public charity
The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships
Fund high quality fellowships in various areas of surgery.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $30,000 |
| PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL | $20,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SWEDISH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| UNIV HOSPITALS CLEVELEND MED | $20,000 |
| UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PHYSICIANS | $20,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $20,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| JACKSON SOUTH COMMUNITY HOSPI | $20,000 |
| UNIV OF ARIZONA | $20,000 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| THE CURATORS OF THE UNIV OF MISSOUR | $10,000 |
| STONY BROOK SURGICAL ASSOC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
111 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UGUPMC GROUP6× · 2018–2023 · $390k · revenue +125%
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $310k · revenue +95%- UHUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC GROUP RETURN6× · 2018–2023 · $280k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $20k
- OLOUR LADY OF THE LAKEone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CRColon & Rectal Clinic of Orlaone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…
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…
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.…
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…
How this is measured
57 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. 57 of the 129 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UPMC GROUP ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH MEDICAL GROUP- SPECIALTY CARE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Methodist Hospitals of Dallas ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SERVICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MASON HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Main Line Hospitals Inc ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Baystate Medical Center Inc: 9% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc: 3% of income from government
- University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa: 2% of income from government
- Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center: 0% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Orlando Health Inc: 0% of income from government
- University Community Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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