National Board of Medical Examiners
Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-1352238. Reported 95 grants totalling $5,139,674 to 59 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 National Board of Medical Examiners, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E030) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 24% 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. 57% 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 $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $63,810; the smallest was $5,181 and the largest $1,111,714. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Medical Fellowships Inc | Alexandria, VA | $1,229,848 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $375,549 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Albright College | Reading, PA | $264,640 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University City District | Philadelphia, PA | $236,518 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alvernia University | Reading, PA | $170,035 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $149,999 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Inst | Blacksburg, VA | $149,926 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $149,878 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Center for Civic Innovation Inc | New York, NY | $133,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Together for West Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Health Career Collaborative | Burlingame, CA | $100,181 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Maternity Care Coalition | Philadelphia, PA | $95,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hofstra University | Hempstead, NY | $79,060 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $74,124 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians | Rye Brook, NY | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $62,484 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Network Towards Unity for Health Association | Bryn Mawr, PA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Association of Medical Spanish | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vision to Learn | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $47,461 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutgers Network of Affiliated Family Medicine Residencies Inc | New Brunswick, NJ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Association of Stemm Pathway and Bridge Programs | Huntington, WV | $37,850 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| It Takes Philly Encouraging and Empowering Our Children to Aim Hig | Philadelphia, PA | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cleveland, OH | $37,085 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Achieve Now | Philadelphia, PA | $27,875 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $25,542 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Better Learning Experiences | Paoli, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ceasefire Pa Education Fund | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School Foundation | Norfolk, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Independence Blue Cross Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northeast Ohio Med Univ | Rootstown, OH | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Univ South Carolina System | Columbia, SC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Quinnipiac University | Hamden, CT | $24,168 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medstar Health Research Institute Inc | Columbia, MD | $20,835 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arkansas Colleges of Health Education | Fort Smith, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Michigan University | Mt Pleasant, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lahey Clinic Inc | Burlington, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oakland University | Rochester, MI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m Univ Health Sci | San Antonio, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Women in Measurement Inc | Richmond, VA | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Foundation for Morristown Medical Center Inc | Morristown, NJ | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| U B Foundation Activities Inc | Buffalo, NY | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | Wailuku, HI | $10,266 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Washington University | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tcg Groceries | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas City, KS | $8,850 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment Inc | Dover, NH | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Council on Measurement in Education Inc | Bloomington, IN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
25 of 59 (42%) 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 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.
- Albright College
Philanthropy Grant - See Part IV - National Center Civic Innov
Contribution - See Part IV - University of Michigan
Stemmler Grant - See Part IV - Univ of California San Fran
Innovation Grant - See Part IV
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 42 of 59 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 | 7 | $446,177 | $60,319 |
| 2022 | 20 | $609,426 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 29 | $1,345,036 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 39 | $2,739,035 | $30,000 |
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
28% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $25,000 -- 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 Pennsylvania.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Board of Medical Examiners'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 39 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: 3750 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104.
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