Musculoskeletal Transplant
Edison, NJ · EIN 22-2803458. Reported 160 grants totalling $4,583,414 to 68 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Musculoskeletal Transplant, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 68 distinct organizations, with 13% 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.
- How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation | Rosemont, IL | $575,300 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Clemson University Research Foundation | Clemson, SC | $416,667 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $318,917 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | W Hollywood, CA | $242,575 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $216,666 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $200,472 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $175,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $166,664 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $150,334 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $145,833 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $141,667 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $121,932 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Office of Sponsored Programs | Richmond, VA | $110,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Curators of the University of M | Columbia, MO | $108,332 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Winstonsalem, NC | $101,200 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $99,597 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $77,083 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Little Rock, AR | $73,962 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc | Athens, GA | $63,376 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology | Hoboken, NJ | $62,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Westbury, NY | $60,885 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $41,667 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $37,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $27,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Jersey Institute of Technology | Newark, NJ | $24,852 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loma Linda University Medical Center | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Missouri Orthopaedicassociationdept of Orth | Columbia, MO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $18,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Connecticut Health Ce | Farmington, CT | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Medical College of Georgia Foundation Inc | Augusta, GA | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Mississippi Foundation | Oxford, MS | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Oklahoma Health Scien | Oklahoma City, OK | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Nyu Langone Hospitals | New York, NY | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rutgers Biomedical and Health Scien Biomedical and Health Sciences | Piscataway, NJ | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| San Antonio Military Medical Center Alumni Association | Towson, MD | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Queens Medical Center | Honolulu, HI | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of California - Davis | Sacramento, CA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Arkansas Foundation Inc | Fayetteville, AR | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | $9,933 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ohio State University Foundation | Columbus, OH | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, NY | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Albany Med Health System | Albany, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine | Bethesda, MD | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tripler Orthopaedic Alumni Foundation | Towson, MD | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Arizona College of Me | Tucson, AZ | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Texas Health Science | Houston, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
50 of 68 (74%) 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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 of 68 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 70 | $1,660,383 | $8,500 |
| 2022 | 53 | $1,243,651 | $8,500 |
| 2023 | 20 | $985,699 | $45,833 |
| 2024 | 17 | $693,681 | $31,250 |
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
20% of its giving went to organizations in Illinois. 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.
Down to the city
Find more funders like Musculoskeletal Transplant
We read newly filed IRS returns and email you the grantmakers whose giving matches your state and cause, as they are published. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Illinois.
- 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.
Related guides
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Musculoskeletal Transplant's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 125 May Street, Edison, NJ, 08837.
EIN 22-2803458 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.