Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancement

Analysis

Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancement is a registered charity in United States, based in Rosemont, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancement reported income of $321k and spending of $741k, spending 231% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $740k to $321k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 130% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Center for Orthopaedic Trauma Advancement sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 63rd percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Agc of Georgia Foundation Inc ($320k), Diplomatic Security Foundation Incorporated ($321k) and Waukee Community School Foundation ($320k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $784k against liabilities of $123k, net assets of $661k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.