Abfm Foundation Inc
Lexington, KY · EIN 61-1368512. Reported 104 grants totalling $9,766,433 to 49 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 Abfm Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 16% 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. 80% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $110,239; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $1,164,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $1,600,000 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Society of Teachers of Family Medicine | Leawood, KS | $1,210,563 | 11 | 4 | 2024 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $1,080,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pisacano Leadership Foundation Inc | Lexington, KY | $480,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Association of Departments of Family Medicine | Leawood, KS | $475,051 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $404,840 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Annals of Family Medicine Inc | Leawood, KS | $404,718 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health and Sciences University | Portland, OR | $367,984 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians Inc | Chicago, IL | $339,482 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $293,190 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Oakland, CA | $250,004 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Texas Health System | San Antonio, TX | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North America Primary Care Research Group | Leawood, KS | $226,920 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation | Leawood, KS | $204,300 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $188,405 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $83,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Virginia Center for Health Innovation | Midlothian, VA | $59,319 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Thiensville, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Tucker, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Jefferson Cty, MO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Brentwood, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Trenton, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Mililani, HI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Academy of Family Physicians | Whittier, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| California Academy of Family Physicians Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Colorado Institute of Familymedicine | Centennial, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Health of South Florida Inc | Cutler Bay, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Medicine Education Consortium Inc | Dayton, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Medicine Midwest Foundation | Bolingbrook, IL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Florida Academy of Family Physicians | Jacksonville, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine | Edison, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Luisiana State University | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marian University | Indianapolis, IN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Mexico Primary Care Training Consortium | Silver City, NM | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Academy of Family Physicians Foundation | Portland, OR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutgers Network of Affiliated Family Medicine Residencies Inc | New Brunswick, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Connecticut | Farmington, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of South Carolina School of Medicine Educational Trust | Columbia, SC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Watauga Medical Center Inc | Boone, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wisconsin Northern & Central Graduate Medical Education Consort | Sauk City, WI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors | Leawood, KS | $42,857 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
17 of 49 (35%) 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.
- George Washington University
TO FUND ABFM HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP - Stanford University
TO FUND DATA ACCESS RESEARCH - Pisacano Leadership Foundation Inc
TO FUND A SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORTING STUDENDS PURSUING A CAREER IN MEDICINE AND ATTENDING LEADERSHIP SEMINARS - North America Primary Care Research Group
TO FUND THE GRANT GENERATING PROJECT - Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
TO FUND COMPETENCY BASED MEDICAL EDUCATION - American College of Osteopathic Family Medicine
TO FUND FLIPPING FAMILY MEDICINE FOR THE FUTURE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 49 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 | 12 | $662,538 | $43,023 |
| 2022 | 17 | $3,397,041 | $85,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $2,169,742 | $88,624 |
| 2024 | 51 | $3,537,112 | $50,000 |
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
26% of its giving went to organizations in Kansas. 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 $50,000 -- 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 Kansas.
- 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 Abfm 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.
Address of record on the latest return: 1648 Mcgrathiana Parkway 550, Lexington, KY, 40511.
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