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American Society of Health-System

Bethesda, MD · EIN 23-7033369. Reported 52 grants totalling $1,566,845 to 41 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

41organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$1,566,845granted, 2020-2023
23%of grantees funded again the next year
34%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For American Society of Health-System, the IRS classifies it under religion rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE X99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 34% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 23% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $194,741. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
6 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
28 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
American Society of Health-System PharmacistsBethesda, MD$536,919442023
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$84,839332023
The Regents of the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles, CA$65,000222023
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillChapel Hill, NC$49,256222021
American Foundation for Pharmaceutical EducationFairfax, VA$40,000442023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN$40,000112023
Medstar Health Research Institute IncColumbia, MD$37,290112023
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of ColoradoAurora, CO$30,000112020
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$30,000112022
University of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$30,000112022
University of Georgia Research Foundation IncAthens, GA$30,000112021
University of Puerto Rico - Med SciencesSan Juan, PR$30,000112021
The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisUrbana, IL$29,985112023
The Methodist HospitalHouston, TX$29,003112022
Rhode Island HospitalProvidence, RI$26,712112022
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University TermTallahassee, FL$25,500112021
University of Kentucky Research FoundationLexington, KY$25,500112023
University of TennesseeKnoxville, TN$25,500112020
Allegheny General HospitalPittsbugh, PA$25,000112023
Erie County Medical Center CorporationBuffalo, NY$25,000112023
Henry Ford Health Genesys FoundationDetroit, MI$25,000112020
Lehigh Valley HospitalAllentown, PA$25,000112021
Mass General Brigham IncorporatedSomerville, MA$25,000112022
Methodist HospitalHouston, TX$25,000112022
Ssm Health Care CorporationSaint Louis, MO$25,000112023
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital IncMemphis, TN$25,000112020
State of Mississippi University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS$25,000112021
University of Chicago Medical CenterChicago, IL$25,000112020
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute IncTampa, FL$23,600112021
Northern California Pharmacy&health Sciences Research FoundationSacramento, CA$20,000222023
Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation IncDanbury, CT$10,000112022
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical Univ Foundation IncTallahassee, FL$10,000112023
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$10,000112023
Texas Southern UniversityHouston, TX$10,000112021
The Cleveland Clinic FoundationIndependence, OH$10,000112023
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics AuthorityMiddleton, WI$10,000112023
Sentara HospitalsVirginia Bch, VA$9,999112022
Riverside Healthcare Association IncNewport News, VA$9,806112022
West Virginia University Hospitals IncMorgantown, WV$9,680112023
Research Foundation for the State University of New YorkAlbany, NY$9,256112022
Lima Memorial Joint Operating CompanyLima, OH$9,000112022

6 of 41 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 7 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
18 orgs
Education
9 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20208$348,639$25,250
202113$309,718$25,000
202214$448,517$25,000
202317$459,971$25,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

37% of its giving went to organizations in Maryland. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Maryland
$574K
Pennsylvania
$135K
Tennessee
$90K
California
$85K
Texas
$64K
Virginia
$60K
Florida
$59K
Illinois
$55K

Down to the city

Bethesda, MD
$537K
Pittsburgh, PA
$85K
Los Angeles, CA
$65K
Houston, TX
$64K
Chapel Hill, NC
$49K
Fairfax, VA
$40K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund18 shared recipientsAmerican Cancer Society Inc15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc12 shared recipientsVanderbilt University Medical Center10 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc10 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Maryland.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from American Society of Health-System's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 4500 East-West Highway 900, Bethesda, MD, 20814.

EIN 23-7033369 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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