Abim Foundation
ABIM Foundation is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania–based public charity established in 1989 by the American Board of Internal Medicine. It advances medical professionalism to build trust and improve health care, supporting projects related to professionalism, trust, health equity, and internal medicine education and training.
Abim Foundation at a glance
In short: Abim Foundation gave $993K across 23 grants in 2025 (avg $43K), top state District of Columbia. 83% of 2025 grantees were new. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $993,071
- -35.0% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 23
- -4.2% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $43,177
- -32.1% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $20,000
- Total assets
- $100,184,190
- +9.0% vs 2024
- New grantees (estimate)
- 83% first-time grantees (19 of 23, 2025; small sample)
- Primary geography
- District of Columbia (32% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated October 2026. New grantees are estimated by matching recipient names across years (methodology).
How to apply to Abim Foundation
- How to Apply
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The described Building Trust process required a letter of intent, with selected applicants invited to submit formal proposals. The Professionalism in Action program accepted applications for its cycle, which closed May 21, 2026.
- Review Cycle
- The listed deadlines for the 2025 Building Trust cycle and the 2026 Professionalism in Action cycle have passed. The available information does not specify a future deadline.
- Deadline
- The listed deadlines for the 2025 Building Trust cycle and the 2026 Professionalism in Action cycle have passed.
- Contact
Mailing address: 510 Walnut Street 1700, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3699
Phone: (215) 446-3500
Website: https://abimfoundation.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Open Grants
3 open opportunities from Abim Foundation
Choosing Wisely Grants
Abim Foundation
Amount
Varies
Deadline
Deadline not published
Misinformation Challenge Grant
Abim Foundation
Amount
$110,000 (total pool for 2022)
Deadline
Deadline not published
Putting Stewardship into Medical Education and Training Grant
Abim Foundation
Amount
$25,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Who Abim Foundation funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Academyhealth ($269K). Together the top 10 received $758K.
Grant Size Distribution
109 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 92 grants of 109 (84%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
The Foundation is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its 2025 grants went to recipients in multiple states and Washington, DC. The largest shares of grant dollars went to DC (32%), Pennsylvania (10%), Michigan (10%), Illinois (7%), and California (6%).
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 23 itemized grants.
States
Cities
Is Abim Foundation open to new grantees?
83%
first-time grantees, 2025
In 2025, 19 of 23 grantees (83%) were first-time recipients. With only 23 grantees, that is a small sample: one grantee more or less moves the share by about 4 points. First grants averaged $30K; repeat grants $104K. How we count
Medians: $20K first-time, $68K repeat.
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2020–2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2020 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $355K (2020) to $1.5M (2024). In 2025 it made 23 grants totaling $993K.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Academyhealth Washington, DC | Advancing research on trust - a focus on medical debt (ph v) | $269,474 |
| American College of Physicians Inc (ACP) Philadelphia, PA | Acp coaching for impact - empowering early career internal medicine graduates practicing in under-resourced communities | $102,000 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI | Trust and ai - the impact of new technologies on healthcare relationships | $86,597 |
| Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation Washington, DC | Support for the david meyers research award; richard baron fellow - to operate a fellowship program for 3 years (2025-2027) in honor of richard baron | $50,000 |
| Washington University St. Louis, MO | Pursuing equity and building trust - creating a novel faculty development series to enhance trust through equitable assessment and delivery of clinical feedback; expanding diversity - novel pathway program for sexual and gender minority high school students | $50,000 |
| Alameda Health System Oakland, CA | Addressing complex social determinants of health and barriers to care - a residency curriculum for home visits in an urban safety net hospital | $40,000 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN | A skills building interdisciplinary advocacy education - the Minnesota advocacy project | $40,000 |
| The University of Chicago Chicago, IL | Educational intervention to reduce bias toward patients with sickle cell disease | $40,000 |
| The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg, TX | Enhancing health equity and resident education in hispanic predominant undeserved communities - a structural an social determinants of health approach | $40,000 |
| University of Maryland Capital Region Health Upper Marlboro, MD | Food as Medicine Project | $40,000 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $100,184,190 | $8,164,387 | $3,743,741 | $993,071 | 23 | $8,164,387 |
| 2024 | $91,914,906 | $6,762,504 | $4,617,345 | $1,526,979 | 24 | $6,311,504 |
| 2023 | $84,153,316 | $7,496,039 | $3,827,303 | $867,100 | 25 | $6,942,017 |
| 2022 | $80,380,157 | $4,891,570 | $3,031,672 | $625,887 | 22 | $4,665,849 |
| 2021 | $92,491,227 | $11,488,048 | $3,012,179 | $360,615 | 15 | $11,222,940 |
| 2020 | $71,954,590 | $1,493,640 | $3,160,485 | $354,740 | 13 | $1,317,982 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated October 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The Foundation’s stated mission is to advance the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care. Its website describes professionalism as a practice grounded in humility, respect, and excellence in service of equitable, compassionate, and humanistic care.
Grant-supported work has included research on trust and medical debt, physician coaching, health equity in medical education, and efforts to address barriers to care. The Foundation’s grants have gone to organizations with varied missions. For example, the American College of Physicians describes its mission as enhancing health-care quality and effectiveness by fostering excellence and professionalism in medicine. HealthTeamWorks says it works collaboratively to transform health care through performance improvement, organizational development, and training. Meharry Medical College says it works to improve health and health care in minority and underserved communities through education, services, and research.
Grantmaking
In filing year 2025, the Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $993,071. Awards ranged from $10,000 to $269,474, with a median grant of $20,000.
Among the largest reported awards were $269,474 to AcademyHealth for research on trust and medical debt; $102,000 to the American College of Physicians for a coaching initiative for early-career internal medicine graduates practicing in under-resourced communities; and $86,597 to the Regents of the University of Michigan for research on trust and the effects of new technologies on health-care relationships. Other grants included $50,000 to the Patient Centered Primary Care Foundation for a research award and fellowship program, and $40,000 to each of Alameda Health System, the Regents of the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, University of Maryland Capital Region Health, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center for projects involving home-visit training, advocacy education, bias reduction, health equity, food as medicine, and clinical training.
A 2025 Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity initiative invited letters of intent by July 15, 2025; selected applicants were to be invited to submit formal proposals. The Foundation and the American Board of Internal Medicine described the initiative as a $320,000 program for projects led by residents and faculty in internal medicine education and training. Teams were required to include at least one faculty member with research mentorship experience. That application cycle has passed.
The Professionalism in Action grant program announced $250,000 in total funding for projects expected to run for two years, with individual grants ranging from $50,000 to $100,000. Applications were due May 21, 2026, with decisions expected by September 2026; that deadline has passed.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Furman S. McDonald as president and CEO as of September 2024 and Richard J. Baron as president and CEO through August 2024. Frederick Cerise is listed as chair, Bruce Leff as chair-elect, and Odette Bolano as secretary-treasurer. The filing also lists Rajeev Jain, Yul D. Ejnes, Ali Khan, and Asher Tulsky as board members, and David L. Coleman as past chair.
Abim Foundation is led by Richard J. Baron, President & CEO to Aug since 2025 (on filings since 2020); 20 of 21 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Richard J. Baron
President & CEO to Aug
President → President & CEO, 2023
President & CEO → President & CEO to Aug, 2025
On filings since 2020
8 hrs/week
$175K (2020) → $300K (2025)
Furman S. McDonald
President & CEO
New on the 2025 filing
8 hrs/week
$133K (2025)
Frederick Cerise MD MPH
Chair
Secretary-Treasurer → Vice Chair, 2023
Vice Chair → Chair, 2025
On filings since 2020
5 hrs/week
$10K (2020) → $10K (2025)
Timothy Lynch
Senior Director & Foundation Programs
On filings since 2020
40 hrs/week
$166K (2020) → $255K (2025)
David L. Coleman MD
Past Chair
Vice Chair → Chair, 2023
Chair → Past Chair, 2025
On filings since 2020
5 hrs/week
$11K (2020) → $20K (2025)
Lorna Lynn
Vice President & Medical Education Research
On filings since 2020
1 hr/week
$6K (2020) → $7K (2025)
Pamela Browner-White
Senior Vice President & Communications
On filings since 2020
5 hrs/week
$30K (2020) → $52K (2025)
Vincent Mandes
Senior Vice President & CFO
On filings since 2020
4 hrs/week
$38K (2020) → $46K (2025)
Reginald Tucker-Seeley
Bot
On filings since 2021
5 hrs/week
$4K (2021) → $10K (2025)
Susan Edgman-Levitan
Bot
On filings since 2021
5 hrs/week
$4K (2021) → $10K (2025)
Yul D. Ejnes MD
Bot
On filings since 2022
5 hrs/week
$4K (2022) → $10K (2025)
Ali Khan
Bot
On filings since 2023
5 hrs/week
$3K (2023) → $9K (2025)
Bruce Leff
Chair-Elect
Bot → Chair-Elect, 2025
On filings since 2023
5 hrs/week
$4K (2023) → $10K (2025)
Heather Comer Yun
Bot
On filings since 2023
5 hrs/week
$4K (2023) → $10K (2025)
Odette Bolano
Secretary-Treasurer
Bot → Secretary-Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2023
5 hrs/week
$4K (2023) → $10K (2025)
Asher Tulsky
Bot
On filings since 2024
5 hrs/week
$4K (2025)
Jessica Perlo Wieschhoff
Executive Vice President & COO
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$102K (2024) → $378K (2025)
Margaret Flinter
Bot
On filings since 2024
5 hrs/week
$4K (2024) → $10K (2025)
Rajeev Jain MD
Bot
On filings since 2024
5 hrs/week
$4K (2024) → $10K (2025)
Jaime McClennen
Senior Communications Manager
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
$103K (2025)
Irving Washington
Bot
New on the 2025 filing
5 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Former officers (15)
- Former: Antonia M. Villarruel PhD RN (2020–2024) — Bot to Jun
- Former: Daniel Wolfson (2020–2024) — Executive Vice President & COO to Sep
- Former: Jackie Judd (2020–2024) — Secretary-Treasurer
- Former: Marianne M. Green MD (2020–2024) — Bot
- Former: Jeanne Marrazzo (2021–2024) — Secretary-Treasurer to Sep
- Former: Anita Samarth (2020–2022) — Bot
- Former: Christine A. Sinsky MD (2020–2022) — Immediate Past Chair
- Former: Clarence H. Braddock III MD (2020–2022) — Bot
- Former: David B. Reuben MD (2020–2022) — Bot
- Former: Patricia M. Conolly MD (2020–2022) — Bot
- Former: Elizabeth A. McGlynn PhD (2020–2021) — Immediate Past Chair
- Former: Gregory P. Poulsen MBA (2020–2021) — Bot
- Former: Sharon A. Levine MD (2020–2021) — Bot
- Former: John G. Harold MD (2020) — Bot
- Former: Wanda Odom (2020) — Director & Fdn Communication to Mar
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2020–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $378K, to Jessica Perlo Wieschhoff (EVP/COO). 20 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about Abim Foundation
How much does Abim Foundation give each year?
Abim Foundation gave $993K across 23 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $1.5M across 24 grants.
What is Abim Foundation's typical grant size?
Abim Foundation's median grant in 2025 was $20,000, and its average grant was $43,177, across 23 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Organizations receiving their first grant from Abim Foundation that year got $30K on average.
Where does Abim Foundation give grants?
Abim Foundation's top state is District of Columbia, with 32% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990. The next largest states were Pennsylvania (10%) and Michigan (10%). The most frequent recipient cities were Chicago, IL (3 grants), Washington, DC (2 grants) and Nashville, TN (2 grants).
Does Abim Foundation give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 23 grants with a stated purpose on Abim Foundation's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support.
Who are Abim Foundation's largest grantees?
Abim Foundation's largest 2025 grantees include Academyhealth ($269,474), American College of Physicians Inc (ACP) ($102,000) and Regents of the University of Michigan ($86,597), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 46% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is Abim Foundation?
Abim Foundation reported $100.2M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $8.2M.
What does Abim Foundation fund?
The Foundation’s stated mission is to advance the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care. Its website describes professionalism as a practice grounded in humility, respect, and excellence in service of equitable, compassionate, and humanistic care. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from Abim Foundation?
The described Building Trust process required a letter of intent, with selected applicants invited to submit formal proposals. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is Abim Foundation's EIN?
Abim Foundation's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 23-2585181. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2020–2025.
Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated October 2026.
Data update history
(7)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS April 22, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS April 26, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 8, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 10, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 8, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 6, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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