Minnesota · Nonprofit
PROTEZ FOUNDATION
PROTEZ FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,054,324 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($400,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Protez Foundation does
Mission
The foundation provides free prosthetics and other resources for those who lost their limbs in underserved areas of the world. The foundation's goal is to cover all financial needs for a person to get fitted for prosthetics. The foundation provides orientation, logistics and psychological support for all patients. The foundation's goal is to provide education, materials, supplies and tools to improve medical care in underserved areas of the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation provides prosthetics along with personalized training and support for individuals who lost limbs in ukraine. The foundation offers emotional support during recovery by creating a positive and encouraging enveronment. We invite guests who share their inspiring recovery stories to motivate and uplift others. The foundation provided 273 ukrainians with prosthetics in 2024.
$3,478,745 spentof which $13,599 as grants100% of program spendingAs part of the foundations ongoing initiatives, the protez academy continued its impactful work throughout 2024. Established by a dedicated team of u.s. Professionals and faculty specializing in prosthetics, physical rehabilitation, and surgery, the academy empowers ukrainian medical specialists to learn, connect, and grow alongside their peers in the united states. In 2024, 33 new specialists completed training in the u.s., further expanding the network of experts supporting patients on their journey to recovery. To strengthen this growing community, protez academy hosted a two-day amputee rehab summit in kyiv, gathering more than 450 participants including prosthetists, surgeons, occupational therapists, and caregivers all united by a shared mission: to exchange knowledge, collaborate, and bring hope to those rebuilding their lives. Additionally, the Protez Foundation organized a veterans appreciation dinner in kyiv, where around 150 veterans attended and felt deeply valued and recognized for their sacrifice.
$7,882 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,486,627.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $761k to $3.7M (+390%).
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.
100% of PROTEZ FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $293k → $516k.
14 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PROTEZ FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
PROTEZ FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
73% 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 PROTEZ FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 38% · 2023 19% — 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
59% of PROTEZ 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 $842k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
PROTEZ FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PROTEZ FOUNDATION
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.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Protez Foundation Ua · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROTEZ FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROTEZ FOUNDATION?
- PROTEZ FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,054,324 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($400,500). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROTEZ FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,054,324 in grants to PROTEZ FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROTEZ FOUNDATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $400,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROTEZ FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 42 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