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FOUNDATION FOR SMFM

FOUNDATION FOR SMFM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,883 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($98,600). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.0M
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$189k
Net assets
$9.4M
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Foundation for Smfm does

Mission

The Foundation for Smfm is a 501(c)(3) non-profit created to promote the career development of young investigators whose research will advance the field of maternal-fetal medicine (mfm) and improve the care of individuals with high-risk pregnancies. The foundation's programs offer opportunities to improve pregnancy outcomes through research and clinical training grants, global health initiatives, and mentoring the next generation of clinicians and scientists.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation successfully funds and awards scholarships and grants to promising researchers who are investigating causes of maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. Foundation programs have offered opportunities to improve pregnancy outcomes through research and clinical training grants, global health initiatives and mentoring of the next generation of clinicians and scientists.

    $736,970 spentof which $347,526 as grants$56 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $736,970.

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($634k) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2018 Revenue 81 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($623k) Net assets 100 ($5.9M)2019 Revenue 143 ($1.9M) Expenses 131 ($831k) Net assets 131 ($7.7M)2020 Revenue 78 ($1.0M) Expenses 95 ($605k) Net assets 149 ($8.7M)2021 Revenue 94 ($1.3M) Expenses 91 ($580k) Net assets 168 ($9.8M)2022 Revenue 72 ($967k) Expenses 145 ($923k) Net assets 140 ($8.2M)2023 Revenue 43 ($573k) Expenses 209 ($1.3M) Net assets 142 ($8.3M)2024 Revenue 148 ($2.0M) Expenses 177 ($1.1M) Net assets 161 ($9.4M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (177)Net assets (161)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 2018 to 2019, from $5.9M to $7.9M (+34%).

$5.9M
$5.9M
$7.9M
$8.8M
$9.9M
$8.8M
$9.2M
$10M
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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.

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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

64% of FOUNDATION FOR SMFM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$705k
’17
$468k
’18
$1.1M
’19
$433k
’20
$674k
’21
$44k
’22
−$751k
’23
$866k
’24
4.3
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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.

Board chair

Bryann Bromley Md

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2022241917151617
Joined·+4+6+9+3+7+6+3
No longer listed·24145952
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $20k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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: $1.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine). These are real filings, and they are not money FOUNDATION FOR SMFM raised.

From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION FOR SMFM’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

FOUNDATION FOR SMFM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

75% 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 FOUNDATION FOR SMFM.

52%
largest funder
73%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 58% · 2021 37% · 2022 84% · 2023 50% — 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.

How long its funders stay

60% of FOUNDATION FOR SMFM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

63% of FOUNDATION FOR SMFM'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 $70k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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

FOUNDATION FOR SMFM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR SMFM

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 23%Fundraising 11%

Governance

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

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 12 states

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Questions and answers

Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SMFM?
FOUNDATION FOR SMFM (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,883 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($98,600). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR SMFM have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $188,883 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR SMFM, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR SMFM?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $98,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR SMFM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 9 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