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The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc

The organization's exempt purpose is to raise funds to support charitable,educational & scientific purposes of its tax-exempt affiliate the hospital for special surgery, and other health care related charitable organizations.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$4.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$37MEducation$147kRecreation & Sports$126kArts & Culture$115kPublic Benefit$28kPhilanthropy$25kCommunity Improvement$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.7M
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$159M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NY SOC FOR THE REL OF RUP & CRPL MAINT$4,666,288
THE STAMFORD HOSPITAL$35,000
THE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION (AAF)$20,000
UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK$15,000
LET'S WIN PANCREATIC CANCER$10,000
NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS$6,000
LADACIN NETWORK INC$5,500
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 (FY17–20, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%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

MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
CO
GA
FL

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$37M · 20 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
15

Total granted

$37M
$413k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-12%

Still filing today

90%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32M · revenue +50%
  • HP
    HSS Properties Corporation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
  • HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • GN
    GREATER NEW YORK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -92%
  • SR
    SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -12%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +133%

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
Lenox Hill Hospital Medical Pc

Lenox hill hospital medical, pc is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…

Health
2
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Healthix Inc

The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…

Public Benefit
11
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
12
Physician Affiliate Group of New York Pc

To provide accountable, responsive quality care with the highest degree of sensitivity to the needs of our diverse, multilingual population while fulfilling the professional and educational needs of our members.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater New York Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc. 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 FoundationsCancer Support OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Arts OrganizationsYouth Sports Booster Organi…Fallen First Responder Supp…Education Equity LeadershipYouth Development CentersYouth Ice Hockey ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Hospice Care ServicesCommunity Health Centers
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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%2%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%88%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,722

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

35 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. 35 of the 38 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
19/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $32,067,988 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THEHSS Properties Corporation — $3,025,000 · HealthHSS Properties Corporation+13 more — $1,194,250 · HealthTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · OtherHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network — $110,000 · OtherARTHRITIS FOUNDATION NORTHEAST REGION INC — $80,000 · OtherNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $40,000 · OtherARTHRITIS FOUNDATION NY CHAPT — $35,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Other+4 more — $39,000 · OtherHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesASPHALT GREEN INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Swimming Inc — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsUSA Swimming Foundation Inc — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsCornell University — $60,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 · EducationNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC — $6,500 · EducationSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 · Arts & CulturePalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $27,500 · Community ImprovementWOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT NEW YORK — $21,000 · Community ImprovementFDNY343RIDE INC — $10,000 · Public Benefit
Health$36,287,238Other$459,000Human Services$150,000Recreation & Sports$120,000Education$76,500Arts & Culture$75,000Community Improvement$48,500Public Benefit$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE — $32,067,988 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHSS Properties Corporation — $3,025,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $305,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK — $187,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc — $150,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital — $138,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetHealthCare Chaplaincy Inc DBA HealthCare Chaplaincy Network — $110,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetVISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK — $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASPHALT GREEN INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCRUTCHES 4 KIDS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUSA Swimming Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUSA Swimming Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT NEW YORK — $21,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLADACIN NETWORK INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFDNY343RIDE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWILLIAMS SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALUMNI INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC — $6,000 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundChubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report 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, FY20–25

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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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