Ohio · Nonprofit
THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION
THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE NICKEL FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $497k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $0
What The Orthopedic Foundation does
Mission
The Orthopedic Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to improving the quality of patient care and medical services through a commitment to research, education, and prevention of orthopedic and neurologic disorders. We believe that quality medical care and service requires a scientific commitment to excellence, compassionate dedication to service and an enthusiastic willingness to teach. We will primarly utilize qualified physicians and surgeons to accomplish this mission. Research will be conducted and sponsored in the fields of orthopedic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, pain management, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Educational programs will be provided for patients, physicians and health care providers in various forms, including lectures, seminars, and fellowships. Prevention programs will incorporate our research and educational expertise to impact orthopedic and neurologic problems encountered within our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education:1. From 2003 through 2007 the foundation offered an orthopedic adult reconstruction and sports medicine post-residency and fellowship program. Goals were continued medical education post-residency for additional clinical and research training of physicians. Physician time for the fellowship education and program are in-kind donations by physicians of their time and service.2. From 2006, with the completion of the foundation's research pavilion and education and learning centers, through 2013, the foundation, in conjunction with various medical device manufacturers, health providers, and health-service organizations, presented courses and seminars for physicians and other health care professionals. The courses dealt with various neuro-musculoskeletal medical topics and the use of various medical devices. In 2019, we provided 10 ohio university heritage college of osteopathic medicine summer research internships working with the physicians at orthoneuro. Students worked with the physicians collecting data for several different studies. Many of the students would have presented their research at the ohio osteopathic symposium in april 2020 had the event not been cancelled…
$1,782,290 spentof which $1,605,480 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,782,290.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $0 (−100%).
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. 3 of the last 9 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
Heather Benjamin
Executive director
Board chair
Mark E Gittins Do
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE ORTHOPEDIC 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.
Where its funders are
THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 THE ORTHOPEDIC 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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION?
- THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being THE NICKEL FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION?
- THE NICKEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ORTHOPEDIC FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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