The Physicians Foundation Inc
Austin, TX · EIN 20-0914085. Reported 61 grants totalling $7,382,062 to 47 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 The Physicians Foundation Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for mental health (NTEE F129).
- How spread out its giving is. 47 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 11% 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 $125,000. Half of what it reported fell between $75,000 and $150,000; the smallest was $24,988 and the largest $750,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation | Charlottesvle, VA | $825,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mississippi State Medical Association Foundation Inc | Ridgeland, MS | $373,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Indiana Medical Foundation Inc | Indianapolis, IN | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Accma Community Health Foundation | Lafayette, CA | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Medical Association of Georgia Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nebraska Medical Foundation Inc | Lincoln, NE | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wyoming Medical Society Scholarship Fund | Cheyenne, WY | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Advocates for Better Health - the Foundation | Roseville, MN | $217,968 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Medical Educational and Scientific Foundation of New York Inc | Westbury, NY | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Montana Medical Association Foundation | Helena, MT | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Medical Society of Virginia Foundation | Henrico, VA | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Travis County Medical Society Foundation | Austin, TX | $165,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Academy of Medicine Jacksonville Florida Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Academy of Pediatrics Inc | Itasca, IL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for Healthy Floridians | Tallahassee, FL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Future Alaska Medical Leaders Inc | Anchorage, AK | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Knoxville Academy of Medicine Foundation | Knoxville, TN | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medical Soceity of Sedgwick County Physician Leadership Alliance | Wichita, KS | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ohio Medical Education Foundation | Columbus, OH | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palm Beach County Medical Society Services Inc | West Palm Bch, FL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Physicians Benevolent Fund | Austin, TX | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Physicians for a Healthy California | Sacramento, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tennessee Foundation for Qualitypatient Healthcare | Nashville, TN | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vermont Medical Society Education and Research Foundation | Williamstown, VT | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washington State Medical Association Foundation for Health | Seattle, WA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $149,998 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $149,086 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Community Service Education and Research Fund Cserf of the | Sacramento, CA | $144,320 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Inland Empire Health Information Organization | Riverside, CA | $141,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $131,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Foundation of the Minnesota Medical Association | Minneapolis, MN | $117,175 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Providence St Joseph Health Foundation | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Massachusetts Medical Society and Alliance Charitable Foundation | Waltham, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| UC San Diego Health | San Diego, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Hawaii Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | Columbus, OH | $93,942 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Arizona Medical Association Foundation | Phoenix, AZ | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Center for a Healthy Maryland Inc | Baltimore, MD | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education | Manchester, ME | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Healthy Rural California Inc | Chico, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medical Society of Northern Virginia Foundation | Mclean, VA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society | Mechanicsburg, PA | $74,985 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iowa Medical Society Foundation | Des Moines, IA | $49,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Academy of Medicine Education Foundation | Independence, OH | $24,988 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
13 of 47 (28%) 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.
- Dr Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation
TO PROMOTE A WELLNESS PROGRAM - Mississippi State Medical Association Foundation
TO SUPPORT A PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP PROGRAM AND ENHANCE PATIENT RESOURCE CONNECTIONS - Palm Beach County Medical Society Services
TO ENHANCE THE PHYSICIAN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY COLLABORATION BETWEEN THREE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETIES - Medical Education and Scientific Foundation of Ny
TO SUPPORT A LEADERSHIP PROGRAM TARGETING WOMEN PHYSICIANS; TO ADDRESS BURNOUT AMONG THE STATE'S PHYSICIANS BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTING PRACTICE-LEVEL CHANGES - American Academy of Pediatrics
WOMEN'S WELLBEING FOR EARLY TO MID-CAREER WOMEN PHYSICIANS - Knoxville Academy of Medicine Foundation
DRIVERS OF HEALTH ASSESSMENT INTEGRATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 47 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 | 19 | $2,155,816 | $149,998 |
| 2022 | 18 | $2,041,246 | $125,000 |
| 2023 | 9 | $1,540,000 | $100,000 |
| 2024 | 15 | $1,645,000 | $100,000 |
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
15% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. 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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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 $125,000 -- 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 Virginia.
- 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 The Physicians Foundation Inc'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 15 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: 401 W 15TH Street 100, Austin, TX, 78701.
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