· Public charity
The Physicians Foundation Inc
The mission of the physicians foundation is to support and empower all physicians to provide high quality care, to maintain the sanctity of the patient-physician relationship and to take an active leadership role in shaping the future of healthcare.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSISSIPPI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $223,000 |
| KNOXVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| MEDICAL SOCIETY OF SEDGWICK COUNTY PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| INLAND EMPIRE HEALTH INFORMATION ORGANIZATION | $141,000 |
| RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $131,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO HEALTH | $100,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $100,000 |
| ACCMA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WYOMING MEDICAL SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $75,000 |
| INDIANA MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| NEBRASKA MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH | $75,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DLDR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $825k · revenue ×13 · 49% of their budget
- MEMEDICAL EDUCATIONAL & SCIENTIFIC FDN OF NY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $729k · revenue +81% · 68% of their budget
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS3× · 2018–2023 · $677k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- KHKANSAS HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +260%
- PBPHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUNDone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -33%
- HLHEALTH LEADS INCone grant, 2017 · $340k · revenue -76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The vermont medical society is the leading voice of physicians and physician assistants in the state and is dedicated to advancing the practice of medicine by advocating on behalf of vermonts clinicians and the patients and communities…
Empowering georgia physicians to lead healthcare for the betterment of our communities.to be the collective voice of physicians while making georgia the best place to practice medicine in the united states.
The cultivation of the science and art of medicine, the interchange of professional experience, the education of its members and the public in current medical trends and techniques
The fort wayne medical society is committed to the goals of the american medical association, the purpose of which is the preservation of the art and science of medicine, personal development of member physicians and protection and…
Amsny, the statewide consortium of medical schools in new york, works with its academic, scientific, healthcare, patient advocacy and business partners to advance medical education, biomedical research, and healthcare delivery. this unique…
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…
The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…
A physician organization serving as an advocate for its members, their patients and the public health. the association promotes ethical, educational and clinical standards for the medical profession and the enactment of just medical laws.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington State Medical Association Foundation for Health Care Improvement and the most unlike its peers is Daniel Hanley Center for Health Lea. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
72 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. 72 of the 82 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEALTHY FLORIDIANS ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOCS 4 PATIENT CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL & SCIENTIFIC FDN OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYOMING MEDICAL SOCIETY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HEALTH INFORMATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT MEDICAL SOCIETY EDUC& RESEARCH FDTNINC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (OSMA) FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCMA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LEADS INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH - THE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CSMS PHYSICIANS' HEALTH & EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE MEDICAL EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND OF THE SEDMS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A HEALTHY MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds KNOXVILLE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Scott & White Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL SOCIETY OF SEDGWICK COUNTY PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL QUALITY ↗
- Who funds BOWLER-BARTLETT FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Public Health Institute · California Healthcare Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · The California Endowment · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Physicians Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Health Center of Worcesterinc — 39% of income from government
- Center for a Healthy Maryland Inc — 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.