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Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of

Oakbrook Terrace, IL · EIN 54-1323281. Reported 29 grants totalling $1,001,052 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$30,000median reported grant
$1,001,052granted, 2021-2023
15%of grantees funded again the next year
20%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 Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G980) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 20% 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. 15% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $99,437. 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.
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
13 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
8 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
Childrens Hospital CorporationBoston, MA$198,874322022
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for ChildrenDallas, TX$128,594222022
Nationwide Childrens Hospital IncColumbus, OH$80,000222023
Regents of the University of California at San DiegoLa Jolla, CA$60,000222023
The Childrens Hospital of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$60,000112023
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN$60,000222022
Gillette Childrens Specialty Health CareSaint Paul, MN$58,605112022
Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY$50,000112023
Childrens Mercy HospitalKansas City, MO$30,000112023
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$30,000112022
New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured & Crippled MaintainingNew York, NY$30,000112022
Phoenix Childrens HospitalPhoenix, AZ$30,000112023
University of Maryland BaltimoreBaltimore, MD$30,000112021
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$30,000112023
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$29,987112021
Seattle Children's HospitalSeattle, WA$20,000112022
The Nemours FoundationJacksonville, FL$14,992112023
Baylor College of MedicineDallas, TX$10,000112021
Childrens Research InstituteWashington, DC$10,000112021
Lac Harbor - UCLA Medical CenterTorrance, CA$10,000112022
Northwestern UniversityEvanston, IL$10,000112021
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityStanford, CA$10,000112023
The Shriners Hospital for ChildrenTampa, FL$10,000112023

5 of 23 (22%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 4 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 23 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
13 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Medical Research
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202110$368,178$30,000
20229$337,882$30,000
202310$294,992$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

20% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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.

Massachusetts
$199K
Texas
$139K
Pennsylvania
$90K
Minnesota
$89K
Ohio
$80K
California
$80K
New York
$80K
Tennessee
$60K

Down to the city

Boston, MA
$199K
Dallas, TX
$139K
Columbus, OH
$80K
La Jolla, CA
$60K
Philadelphia, PA
$60K
Nashville, TN
$60K

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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 Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation7 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc7 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 $30,000 -- 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 Massachusetts.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of'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.

Address of record on the latest return: 1 Tower Lane 2410, Oakbrook Terrace, IL, 60181.

EIN 54-1323281 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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