Intuitive Foundation
Historical FunderSunnyvale, California · EIN 83-2210302 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$12.6M
Organizations funded104
Typical grant$51,610
Total assets$122.7M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $30,000 and $100,000.
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How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | INTUITIVE FOUNDATION |
|---|---|
| Address | 1020 KIFER ROAD, SUNNYVALE CA 94086 |
| Phone | 4085232100 |
| GRANTS@INTUITIVE-FOUNDATION.ORG | |
| Form and materials | ONLINE APPLICATIONS AT WWW.INTUITIVE-FOUNDATION.ORG |
| Deadlines | FOR UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS, THEY ARE ROLLING REQUESTS, WHICH ARE AGGREGATED AND ASSESSED QUARTERLY. |
| Restrictions | LIMITED TO 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATIONS OR FOREIGN EQUIVALENTS |
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What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
68% of grants went outside California.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Online Giving Foundation | Newark, DE | General support for various designated charities | $2,823,734 |
| European Society Coloproctology | Edinburgh, UK | European society of coloproctology colorectal robotic surgery training program | $1,857,795 |
| The Gog Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | A randomized controlled trial of robotic versus open radical hysterectomy for cervical | $749,759 |
| European Society of Thoracic Surgeons | Exeter, UK | The adoption rate of robotic surgery in the european thoracic community is approaching a tipping point. the ests wants to drive further… | $365,000 |
| Engineers Without Borders | Denver, CO | Programmatic support for merging of engineering world health and engineers without borders for management of biomedical engineering… | $275,000 |
| First Robotic | Manchester, NH | Competition team support | $256,700 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Gift to support the development and scholarly activity conducted by the da vinci research kit | $220,000 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | Robotic surgical fellowships colorectal surgery program director terrah paul olson | $212,390 |
| Research Foundation of the Ascrs | Bannockburn, IL | The research in robotic surgical technology program | $180,000 |
| Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corp | Stony Brook, NY | Robotic surgical fellowship: surgical specialty: bariatric surgey, foregut and hernia repair | $150,000 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | The goals and objectives of this program will include preparing the candidate for transition to independent practice, learning advanced… | $150,000 |
| Meander Medical Centre | Amersfoort, NL | Robotic surgical fellowship: meander medical centren prof dr ivo broeders, program director surgical specialty - colorectal | $141,400 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | The goal for the fellow is to become proficient in the care of patients with disorders of the colon and rectum by building on knowledge and… | $125,871 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | This fellowship is establishing the basis for future thought in the care and robotic treatment of genito urinary cancers worldwide | $125,000 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | To provide mentored clinical exposure to single-port robotic surgery for benign and malignant urologic diseases (i.e. benign prostatic… | $125,000 |
| Long Island Laparoscopic Surgery (Northwell Health) | Port Jefferson, NY | Provide the fellow with the necessary training and eduction to feel comfortable in application of minimally invasive surgery to the field… | $125,000 |
| Nyu Langone Health | New York, NY | Nyu grossman school of medicine | $125,000 |
| Nyu Langone Health | New York, NY | Robotic fellowship grant: thoracic | $125,000 |
| Lahey Clinic | Burlington, MA | Provided a comprehensive curriculum for the interventional pulmonary fellow each year with both online and in person resources coupled with… | $118,000 |
| Karolinska University Hospital | Stockholm, SW | Implementation of robotic-assisted hysterectomy in the united states: impact on in-hospital use of opioids and non-opioid analgesics | $115,000 |
| Nyu Langone Health | New York, NY | Robotic surgical fellowship urology - program director william huang | $111,552 |
| Atrium Health | Charlotte, NC | Robotic fellowship grant pi dr. martini general surgery | $110,129 |
| Amsterdam UMC University of Amsterdam | Amsterdam, NL | Society training grant: a european training program for robotic liver surgery (liverobot) pi rutger-jan swijnenburg | $106,179 |
| University of Tennessee Foundation | Knoxville, TN | This followship program will provide fellows with the clinical expertise to manage complex abdoninal wall pathology | $104,797 |
| University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus | Aurora, CO | Fellowship program: surgical specialty: general; significant emphasis is placed on minimally invasive treatments to reduce the morbidity of… | $104,523 |
| European Assocation of Urology | Arnhem, NL | Erus robotic curriculum | $101,897 |
| Health Career Collab | Burlingame, CA | Health career collab - national expansion and program development | $100,000 |
| Khan Academy Mcat | Mountain View, CA | Mcat prep improvement project on khan academy | $100,000 |
| Association of Women Surgeons (Aws) | Lexington, KY | Aws 2023 grant | $91,299 |
| Research Foundation of the Ascrs | Oakbrook Terrace, IL | Robotic research grant funding provided to the ascrs for their robotic grant program | $84,000 |
| Ted Rogers Scholarship Fellowship Program at Famu-Fsu | Tallahassee, FL | Outreach philanthropy grant: enhancing access to STEM education, career readiness and strengthening pathways to student success the program… | $80,505 |
| Karolinska University Hospital | Stockholm, SW | Implementation of robotic-assisted hysterectomy in the united states: impact on in-hospital use of opioids and non-opioid analgesics | $80,000 |
| Sunderland Royal Hospital | Sunderland, UK | The goal of the fewllowship: to achieve independent practice in robotic colorectal surgery | $78,000 |
| University of Liverpool | Liverpool, UK | The liverpool robotic colorectal fellowship (lrcf) has the aim of providing training in robotic colorectal surgery to colorectal surgeons… | $76,000 |
| Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Nhs Trust | Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK | The fellowship in robotic surgery in esophagogastric surgery aims to provide comprehensive training and exposure to the latest techniques… | $75,000 |
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Kansas, MO | A human factors approach to mitigating speech communication interference in the operating room | $75,000 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | Assessing outcomes of patients in tanzania undergoing open versus minimally invasive surgery: the optimise study | $75,000 |
| The College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (Cosecsa) | Arusha, TZ | Building global surgery research capacity to improve outcome of surgical patients: a cosecsa research mentorship program | $74,000 |
| Mayo Clinic Florida | Jacksonville, FL | The correlation between health factors county health ranking and bariatric surgery outcomes: a multi-center study | $73,200 |
| Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc | Bloomington, IN | Adjuvant treatment deintensification after transoral surgery for human papillomaviruspositive squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx | $72,500 |
| Philipps-Universitt Marburg | Marburg Hes, GM | Functionalandoncologicresultsafteropen,laparoscopic,androboticpartialnephrectomy:in-Depth… | $72,000 |
| Mayo Clinic Otolaryngology Undergraduate Research Education Program (Urep) | Rochester, MN | Mayo clinic otolaryngology - head and neck surgery undergraduate research internship program (urip) scholarship | $70,348 |
| Sunnyvale Community | Sunnyvale, CA | Holiday program 2024 | $70,000 |
| Fundacion Herrera Llerandi | Guatemala, GT | Expansion of existing training program for bomberos to combat hemorrhage from pelvic injury | $67,491 |
| Cosecsa (College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa) | Arusha, TZ | Society training grant: building global surgery research capacity to improve outcome of surgical patients: a cosecsa mentorship fellowship… | $66,550 |
| Nc State Pre-College Program | Raleigh, NC | Nc-Msen pre-college program | $65,000 |
| Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University | Shinan District, CH | General support | $60,000 |
| Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein | San Paulo, BR | Robotic fellowship grant: pi richardo terra surgical specialty thoracic | $60,000 |
| Hospital Mater Dei Salvador | Bonfim, BR | The objective of the amount granted is to provide financial support for the student of the robotic surgery fellow in urology. | $60,000 |
| Yonsei University College of Medicine | Seoul, KS | Implementation of reduced port robotic gastrectomy using da vinci sp, pi - dr. kim, south korea | $60,000 |
| Long Beach Education Foundation | Long Beach, CA | Sato academy maker space | $52,530 |
| Mayo Clinic Otolaryngology Undergraduate Research Education Program (Urep) | Rochester, MN | Medical student research internship program, a year-long program for 2 students from urm backgrounds | $52,034 |
| University of Massachusetts Medical School | Worcester, MA | Clinical research grant: standardization and education of emergency robotic undocking protocols for thoracic operations through… | $51,610 |
| Korea University College of Medicine | Seongbukgu, KS | Comparative analysis of clinical outcomes following transoral robotic thyroidectomy (tort) and transoral endoscopic thyroidectomy (toet),… | $51,000 |
| Project Invent | San Francisco, CA | STEM invention programming in every school | $51,000 |
| Cetys | Mexicali, MX | Robotics program to promote STEM education in low income communities of mexicali, baja california, mexico | $50,000 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital - University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Development of a standardized coaching program for robotic surgery in pediatric urology | $50,000 |
| Project Invent | San Francisco, CA | STEM invention programming in every school | $45,000 |
| Fort Lewis | Durango, CO | Pay it forward in STEM ay24-25 | $43,500 |
| Elevate Tutoring | San Jose, CA | Advancing education | $42,652 |
Showing the 60 largest of 104 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal College of Surgeons Ireland | Dublin, | Self community of practice and mentorship programme | $278,000 |
| Intuitive Foundation of the Aagl | Cypress, CA | Rebotic surgical fellowships awarded by aagl for gynecology fellowships | $228,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Soceity research grant: a specialized learning pathway for adoption of single-port robot-assisted surgery pi: ahmed ghazi | $200,000 |
| Research Foundation of the Ascrs | Oakbrook Terrace, IL | Robotic clinical research grant funding to support robotic research submitted to the organization | $180,000 |
| Sages | Los Angeles, CA | Robotic clinical research grant funding to support robotic research submitted to the organization | $180,000 |
| Upper Gi International Robotic Association (Ugira) | Utrecht, | Society training grant: ugria - ugira fellowship for ramie | $168,750 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | Robotic surgical fellowship program director: mihir parikh surgical specialty thoracic | $125,000 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | Los Angeles, CA | Robotic surgical fellowship program director kulmeet sandhu surgical specialty baratrics | $125,000 |
| Meander Medical Centre | Amersfoort, | Robotic surgical fellowship program director esther consten surgical specialty colorectal | $125,000 |
| Nyu Grossman School of Medicine | New York, NY | Robotic surgical fellowship program director: william huang surgical specialty urology | $125,000 |
| Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corp | Stony Brook, NY | Robotic surgical fellowship: surgical specialty: bariatric surgey, foregut and hernia repair | $125,000 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | Robotic surgical fellowship _program director: talar tatarian surgical specialty bariatrics | $125,000 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | Robotic surgical fellowship program director bartlet pickron surgical specialty colorectal | $125,000 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Houston, TX | Robotic surgical fellowships: program director richard englehardt surgical specialty: bariatrics | $122,240 |
| Mayo Otolaryngology | Rochester, MN | Outreach grant: mayo clinic otolaryngology - head and neck surgery medical student research internship program | $117,000 |
| Atrium Health | Charlotte, NC | Robotic surgical fellowship program director john martini | $110,129 |
| American Association for Thoracic Surgery (Aats) | Beverly, MA | Outreach grant: medical student diversity scholarship | $100,000 |
| East Suffolk and North Essex Nhs Foundation Trust | Colochester, | Robotic surgical fellowship program director subash vasudevan surgical specialty colorectal | $99,224 |
| Kingston Health Sciences Centre | Kingston, | Robotic surgical fellowship - program director sunil patel surgical specialty colorectal | $87,520 |
| Mayo Otolaryngology | Rochester, MN | Outreach grant :mayo clinic otolaryngology - head and neck surgery summer research education program (srep)scholarship | $80,500 |
| University of Liverpool | Liverpool, | Robotic surgical fellowship program director shakil ahmed surgical specialty colorectal | $76,000 |
| Golden Jubilee National Hospital | Clydebank, | Robotic surgical fellowship prograrm director alan kirk surgical specialty thoracic | $75,760 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston, MA | Clinical research grant: geriatric assessment in the comparative effectiveness of robotic-assisted versus open radical cystectomy in older… | $75,000 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston, MA | Clinical research:impact of implementation of 24-hour robotic acute care surgery (racs) at a tertiary academic medical center | $75,000 |
| Engineers Without Borders | Denver, CO | Programmatic support for merging of engineering world health and engineers without borders for management of biomedical engineering… | $75,000 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital | Houston, TX | Clinical research: phase II trial of surgical site infection outcomes in robotic natural orifice intracorporeal anastomosis and extraction… | $75,000 |
| Inha University Hospital | Incheon, | Clinical research: multicenter evaluation of da-vinci sp thyroid surgery and development of new surgical approach using the da-vinci sp… | $75,000 |
| Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital | Eldoret Uasin Gishu, | Using a systems-based approach to build gynecologic minimal access surgery at a tertiary teaching hospital in western kenya | $75,000 |
| Nepean Hospital Endometriosis Ultrasound and Advanced Endosurgery Unit | Kingswood, | Clinical research grant: a comparison of post operative bowel symptoms following robotic-assisted and laparoscopic endometriosis resection… | $75,000 |
| Politecnico Di Milano | Milan, | Clinical research: intra-operative lymph nodes localization through augmented reality | $75,000 |
| Seoul National University Bundang Hospital | Seongnamsi, | Clinical research: effect and feasibility of parathyroid visualization with indocyanine green angiography on postoperative parathyroid… | $75,000 |
| St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne | Fitzroy, | Cost-Effectiveness hospital productivity modeling to assess the impact of introduction of multispecialty robotic-assisted surgery to an… | $75,000 |
| St Antonius Hospital | Nieuwegein, | Clinical research grant: the role of robotic surgery in (un)complicated diverticulitis in experienced hands | $75,000 |
| Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mexico | Mexico City, | Self module deveopment - repair of esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula | $75,000 |
| University Medical Center Utrecht | Utrecht, | Clinical research: telementoring in the training pathway of surgeons learning robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy (ramie). | $75,000 |
| Yonsei University College of Medicine | Seoul, | Clinical research: standardization and quality control of reduced port robotic gastrectomy (reprog-qc): a prospective, observational,… | $75,000 |
| East Central and Southern Africa College of Nursing and Midwifery (Ecsaconm | Arusha, | Self module deveopment - cpr | $74,952 |
| Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (Olvg) | Amsterdam, | Clinical research: reducing hospital burden through same day discharge: a study protocol on robotic liver and colon surgery | $74,900 |
| The College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa (Cosecsa) | Arusha, | Building global surgery research capacity to improve outcome of surgical patients: a cosecsa research mentorship program | $74,800 |
| Universita Degli Studi Di Genova | Genova, | Clinical research how do surgeons learn? toward personalized robotic-assisted laparoscopy training based on high-density… | $74,800 |
| Renown Health Foundation | O Reno, NV | Assessing women's quality of life, health outsomes, and cost-effectiveness of utilizing robotic surgery techniques for gynecological… | $74,756 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | Minimally invasive treatment of early-stage lung cancer with brachytherapy placement by robotic-assisted bronchoscopy with cone beam… | $74,730 |
| University Hospital Brandenburg Brandenburg Medical School | Neuruppin, | Clinical research:robot-assisted surgery for colorectal cancer resection: population-based analysis of prevalence, trends and quality of… | $74,569 |
| City of Hope | Durate, CA | Clinical research grant: the use of robotic bronchoscopy to diagnose non-malignant peripheral lesions in immunocompromised patients | $72,726 |
| Samsung Changwon Hospital | Changwon, | Clincial research the efficient localization of robot-assisted breast conserving surgery: a multicenter and randomized control study trial | $72,000 |
| Portsmouth Nhs Trust Hospital | Portsmouth, | Clinical research: a single-centre, randomized clinical trial assessing non-inferiority of surgical techniques: robotic multi-port… | $70,430 |
| Cancer Institute Hospital | Tokyo, | Clinical research: evaluation of safety and efficacy of robotic-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy compared to open pancreaticoduodenectomy.… | $70,000 |
| Nc State Math & Science Education Network Pre-College Program (Msen-Pcp) | Raleigh, NC | Outreach grant nc-msen pre-college program | $65,000 |
| Seattle Children's Hospital - University of Washington | Seattle, WA | Clinical research: assessment of real-time heart rate variability correlation to technical and non-technical skill acquisition during… | $60,222 |
| Ucsd Bummp Program | LA Jolla, CA | Biology undergraduate masters mentorship program | $60,000 |
| Aas Foundation -- Henri Ford Junior Faculty Research Award | Los Angeles, CA | Outreach grant: henri ford junior faculty research award | $50,000 |
| Cetys | Mexicali, | Robotics program to promote STEM education in low income communities of mexicali, baja california, mexico | $50,000 |
| The Tech Interactive | San Jose, CA | Outreach grant STEM inclusion initiative | $50,000 |
| Tokyo Medical and Dental University | Tokyo, | Clinical research preoperative diagnosis stage II or III colon cancer patients intracorporeal anastomosis versus extracorporeal anastomosis… | $46,000 |
| European Society of Thoracic Surgeons | Exeter, | The adoption rate of robotic surgery in the european thoracic community is approaching a tipping point. the ests wants to drive further… | $45,785 |
| Az Maria Middelares Ghent | Ghent, | Robotic surgical fellowship program director filip muysoms general surgery | $44,000 |
| Fort Lewis | Durango, CO | Pay it forward in STEM ay24-25 | $43,500 |
| Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute | Mumbai, | Robotic surgical fellowship program director yogesh kulkarni surgical specialty gynecology | $40,000 |
| Apollo Hospitals | Chennai, | Robotic surgical fellowship - program director: ragavan narasimhan surgical specialty: urology | $39,200 |
| Africa Foundation for Global Health | Abuja, | Paediatric male circumcision skills module | $37,500 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12,598,625 | 180 |
| 2023 | $9,139,894 | 134 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 11, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202523159349101907
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 83-2210302
- Profile updated Nov 4, 2026
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