Minnesota · Nonprofit
Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons
Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,216 to it, the largest being Patty Brisben Foundation for Women's Sexual Health ($365,616). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $483k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons does
Mission
The mission of the Society of Genecologic Surgeons is to promote excellence in Genecologic Surgery through acquistion of knowledge and improvement of skills, advancement of basic clinical reasearch, and professional and public education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Annual Meeting: To promote gynecologic surgery and integrate lessons from the past with vision to the future.
$521,744 spentof which $5,075 as grants$617,029 earned by the program84% of program spendingPostgraduate Course: Focuses on the surgical management of gynecologic problems and approaches, emphasizing surgical education, technique, and evidence-based strategies to improve surgeon competence, performance, and outcomes.
$16,522 spent$22,843 earned by the program3% of program spendingResearch: To advance gynecologic surgery by driving excellence in research and discovery.
$83,119 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $621,385.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $3.1M (+27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Tessa Benitez
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $57k → $21k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons’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
Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 44% · 2020 50% · 2021 93% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons: 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 Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons?
- Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,216 to it, the largest being Patty Brisben Foundation for Women's Sexual Health ($365,616). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $483,216 in grants to Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons?
- Patty Brisben Foundation for Women's Sexual Health is the largest funder on record, with $365,616 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Society Of Gynecologic Surgeons 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.
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 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing