· Public charity
Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Inc
To accelerate progress in what has been an underserved field of research; the organization aims to raise awareness about brain cancer and help mobilize critical scientific research through research grants.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $597k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY | $1,861,035 |
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $169,292 |
| BROAD INSTITUTE INC | $156,726 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $116,523 |
| TEMPUS INC | $97,200 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $56,865 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC | $10,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - MONTGOMERY | $6,796 |
| UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TBThe Broad Institute Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $390k · revenue +95%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $157k · revenue +132%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $88k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $150k
- CVCOHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INCone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -23%
- STSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +106%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unc Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COHEN VETERANS BIOSCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UPLIFTING ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY SIGNAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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