About Council of Medical Specialty Societies
Our mission is to advance the expertise and collective voice of specialty societies in support of physicians and the patients they serve.
Focus Areas
Quality (including diagnostic excellence)Health equity / Encoding EquityContinuing education and professional developmentPublic health partnershipsPatient engagementRegistry science and researchLong COVID education and care managementProfessional standards and AI/ML in medicine
Who They Fund
healthcare providers (clinicians, diagnosticians)patients affected by diagnostic processeshealth systems and hospitals
About Council of Medical Specialty Societies
Council of Medical Specialty Societies centers its grantmaking on diagnostic excellence, and its largest recent awards show a project-based model aimed at specialty-society deliverables. In 2024, the foundation gave $1,665,820 to the American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc in Alexandria, VA for a Diagnostic Excellence Research Project with Deliverables, alongside a $1,628,045 award to the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology Inc in Jacksonville, FL for the same purpose. That pattern points to a funder that uses sizable, restricted grants to support organized clinical societies rather than individual applicants. Its stated mission is to advance the expertise and collective voice of specialty societies in support of physicians and the patients they serve. Recent active programs reinforce that role: CMSS administers competitive initiatives around diagnostic excellence, diagnostic feedback in clinical registries, and an Encoding Equity alliance focused on rethinking race in clinical algorithms. The grantee base is made up of medical specialty societies and related research partners, including societies working in oncology, endocrinology, cardiology, geriatrics, nephrology, and other clinical fields. CMSS also supports collaborative grant programs with outside foundations, including the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
What Council of Medical Specialty Societies Funds
Diagnostic excellence is the clearest throughline. CMSS awarded $1,216,945 to the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in Elk Grove Village, IL for a Diagnostic Excellence Research Project with Deliverables, and another $100,000 to The College of American Pathologists in Northfield, IL for the same type of project. Those awards sit within a broader competitive program built to help specialty societies create and disseminate resources that improve timeliness, accuracy, safety, efficiency, and patient-centeredness in diagnosis. Another core area is registry science: the Diagnostic Feedback in Clinical Registries program supports specialty societies in building diagnostic performance feedback into clinical registries, including seed support for early-stage registry development. Health equity also appears as a major line of work through the Encoding Equity Alliance, which is designed to rethink race in clinical algorithms and develop rigorous approaches for its use. CMSS additionally runs or partners on age-friendly specialty ambulatory care proposals.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$550K
Total Assets
$6.5M
Total Revenue
$13.8M
Total Expenses
$13.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $50K and $283K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$50K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$283K
Geographic Reach
National10 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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