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Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation

Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,105 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($626,340). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$876k
Net assets
$17M
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation does

Mission

To support innovative education and research that facilitates advances in the field of arthroscopy

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To promote and support research and education to help facilitate advances in the medical field of arthroscopy

    $685,490 spentof which $344,010 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $685,490.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($9.6M)2018 Revenue 301 ($4.7M) Expenses 93 ($1.5M) Net assets 119 ($11M)2019 Revenue 104 ($1.6M) Expenses 102 ($1.6M) Net assets 131 ($13M)2020 Revenue 88 ($1.4M) Expenses 135 ($2.1M) Net assets 137 ($13M)2021 Revenue 57 ($880k) Expenses 58 ($919k) Net assets 153 ($15M)2022 Revenue 112 ($1.7M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 127 ($12M)2023 Revenue 93 ($1.4M) Expenses 75 ($1.2M) Net assets 148 ($14M)2024 Revenue 86 ($1.3M) Expenses 53 ($837k) Net assets 173 ($17M)
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Revenue (86)Expenses (53)Net assets (173)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $13M to $15M (+17%).

$10M
$12M
$13M
$15M
$17M
$15M
$17M
$19M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$29k
’17
$3.2M
’18
$5k
’19
−$772k
’20
−$39k
’21
$174k
’22
$263k
’23
$499k
’24
8.1
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Laura Downes

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2017201820192020202120222024
Listed10131010151617
Joined·+3+1+0+14+3·
No longer listed·04092·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $344k → $64k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Arthroscopy Association of North America). These are real filings, and they are not money Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation.

71%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 77% · 2019 94% · 2020 81% · 2021 54% · 2022 67% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

97% of Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $851k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 5%Fundraising 14%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Arthoscopy Association of North America · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation?
Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,105 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($626,340). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $876,105 in grants to Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $626,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Arthroscopy Association of North America Educational Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing