Abim Foundation
Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-2585181. Reported 86 grants totalling $3,380,581 to 69 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 Abim Foundation, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for diseases & disorders (NTEE G12).
- How spread out its giving is. 69 distinct organizations, with 30% 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. 23% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $499,728. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Healthcare Improvement | Boston, MA | $1,024,559 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Academy Health | Washington, DC | $482,846 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $160,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | Oakland, CA | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Social Good Fund Inc | Richmond, CA | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Public Good Projects | New York, NY | $62,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $53,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Society of Hospital Medicine | Philadelphia, PA | $42,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Brookdale Hospital Medical Center | Brooklyn, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Costs of Care | Cambridge, MA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dallas County Hospital District | Dallas, TX | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Uniformed Services University of the Health Services | Bethesda, MD | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation | Washington, DC | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hastings Center Inc | Garrison, NY | $33,364 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Annapolis Maryland | Annapolis, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Give Foundation Inc | Dublin, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Leap Frog Group | Washington, DC | $24,960 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $22,806 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Center for Health and Research Transformation | Ann Arbor, MI | $20,296 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Aurora Health Care Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science | Hines, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School | Norfolk, VA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hennepin Health Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Honorhealth Foundation | Scottsdale, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Magnolia Regional Health Center | Corinth, MS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Main Line Hospitals Inc | Radnor, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Josephs Foundation of San Joaquin | Phoenix, AZ | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas | Little Rock, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yale New Haven Hospital | New Haven, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diversemedicine Inc | Carrollton, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tricounty Community Network Inc | Pottstown, PA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Providence Trinitycare Hospice Foundation | Torrance, CA | $10,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Geisinger Medical Center | Danville, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Highmark Health | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Louisana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport | Shreveport, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Shore University Hospital | Westbury, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rowan University | Glassboro, NJ | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | Santa Barbara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| State University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Texas Medical Branch | Galveston, TX | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Intend Health Strategies | Dedham, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions Inc | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
10 of 69 (14%) 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.
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
TO REFINE THEORY OF CHANGE FOR BUILDING TRUST BY TESTING AT IMPLEMENTATION SITES TO REFINE THE KEY DRIVERS AND CHANGE IDEAS THAT IMPROVE ORGANIZATIONAL TRUSTWORTHINESS (PH III) - Thomas Jefferson University
DESIGNING THE ABIM FOUNDATION PLATFORM FOR TEACHING AND EVALUATING THE COMMUNICATION OF UNCERTAINTY, UN-LEARNING BIAS CURRICULUM - Academyhealth
TO SPONSOR AN EVENT TO SUPPORT THEIR MISSION OF ADVANCING THE FIELD OF HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH BY ACTING AS AN OBJECTIVE BROKER OF INFORMATION, BRINGING TOGETHER STAKEHOLDERS TO ADDRESS THE CURRENT AND FUTURE NEEDS OF AN EVOLVING HEALTH SYSTEM, INFORM HEALTH POLICY AND PRACTICE, AND TRANSLATE EVIDENCE INTO ACTION; TO SUPPORT THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY ON LOW-VALUE CARE PROGRAM - TO CONTINUE OPERATING THE RESEARCH COMMUNITY AND CONSULT WITH THE ABIM FOUNDATION ON MEETINGS RELATED TO TRUST AND LOW VALUE CARE. TO SUPPORT ADVANCING RESEARCH ON TRUST - TO ADVANCE RESEARCH AND INFORM POLICY AND PRACTICE TO IMPROVE TRUST. - Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
A COMPETENCY-BASED APPROACH TO COMMUNICATION OF CLINICAL UNCERTAINTY WITHIN INTRA- AND INTER PROFESSIONAL HEALTH CARE TEAMS - Social Good Fund
SUPPORT FOR UNCERTAINTY IN MEDICINE - A NEW PODCAST SERIES - Public Good Projects
TO PRODUCE A MONTHLY RESOURCE EMAIL ON MEDICAL MISINFORMATION TOPICS, FOR USE BY CLINICIANS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 of 69 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 15 | $360,615 | $20,000 |
| 2021 | 22 | $625,887 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 25 | $867,100 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,526,979 | $40,000 |
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
32% 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.
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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 $20,000 -- 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 Massachusetts.
- 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 Abim Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 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: 510 Walnut Street 1700, Philadelphia, PA, 19106.
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