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Advancing Cancer Treatment

Acts mission is to make the washington, dc metropolitan area a leader in advancing clinical trial accrual, thus accelerating improved cancer care and treatment.

$348k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$1.6MScience & Tech$228kEducation$167k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $260k
$28,160
Median grant
8
States reached
$714k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GA CTR FOR ONCOLOGY RESARCH AND ED$110,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$75,000
JOHNS HOPKINS$75,000
ZERO$28,160
PCEC$25,000
FORCE$20,000
NASPCC$10,000
PCC OF NC$5,170
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NASPCC: $10k → 14%PCCTC LLC: $607k → 17%FORCE: $30k → 13%UNIV OF KANSAS MED CTR: $25k → 16%PCC OF NC: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL: $28k → 13%GA CTR FOR ONCOLOGY RESARCH AND ED: $110k → 13%PCEC: $25k → 3%THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $75k → 9%ZERO: $67k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS: $75k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MD FOUNDATION: $17k → 11%PROSTATE CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS CONS LLC: $504k → 17%FORCE: $20k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $75k → 9%ZERO-THE END OF PROSTATE CANCER: $30k → 9%SIDNEY KIMMEL COMP CANCER CTR: $75k → 6%ZERO: $28k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS: $75k → 6%JOHNS HOPKINS: $75k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 6 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$1.7M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+74%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’23’24
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2020–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +26%
  • ZP
    ZERO PROSTATE CANCER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • KA
    KANSAS ATHLETICS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $17k · revenue +74%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
2
Urologic Cancer Foundation
—
3
International Prostate Cancer Foundation Inc

Education for patients and physicians, global prostate cancer screening, research and genetic testing

Health
4
Prostate Cancer Foundation of Chicago

Improve quality of care and life through patient support programs, clinical reserch, and professional/public education. promote public awareness, cancer prevention, detection and treatment options to prostate cancer patients, their…

Health
5
Urology Health Foundation

The Urology Health Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2003 by Birmingham urologist Dr. Thomas E. Moody. Its purposes are to educate physicians and other medical professionals in new techniques and procedures being…

Education
6
Ut Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Center Moncrief Cancer Institute

To be a leader in our community's efforts to fight cancer and reduce its burden throughout the continuum of care setting, using education, awareness, prevention, early detection, behavioral and nutritional sciences and research.

Health
7
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
8
Active Surveillance Patients International

Active Surveillance Patients International ASPI was created by men with prostate cancer PCa for men with prostate cancer. The founders all took a proactive approach to Active Surveillance AS. They witnessed overtreatment and confusion…

Health
9
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
10
Prostate Cancer Research Inc

The organization's has 6 core goals to guide their decision making. the first goal is to become the gold standard for prostate cancer research. goal 2 is to strengthen their credibility and reputation among the research community. goal 3…

Health
11
Friends and Family Against Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer awareness and fund research

Health
12
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Zero Prostate Cancer; the most unlike its peers is University of Maryland Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,111,283 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $124,660 · HealthZERO PROSTATE CANCERGEORGIA CENTER FOR ONCOLOGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $110,000 · HealthGEORGIA CENTER FOR ONCOLOGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC+2 more: $35,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS: $150,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINSUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTO…FORCE: $50,000 · OtherFORCEUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $28,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAR…KANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $25,000 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INC+1 more: $5,170 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationJOHNS HOP…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $16,800 · EducationUNIVERSIT…
Health$1,380,943Other$408,170Education$166,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,111,283 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $124,660 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA CENTER FOR ONCOLOGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND FOUNDATION INC: $16,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PROSTATE CANCER COALITIONS (NASPCC): $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Advancing Cancer Treatment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Advancing Cancer Treatment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Advancing Cancer Treatment?

Find your warmest path to Advancing Cancer Treatment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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