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Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc

Acgt supports high-risk, high-reward scientific research to develop cancer therapeutics that use the body's own cells and genes as a living medicine.

$2.0M
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$498k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$10M
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $85k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$481,606
Median grant
6
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES$498,238
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$486,965
YALE UNIVERSITY$484,725
ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE$481,606
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$40,297
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$31,825
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$13,145
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 (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHIOCCA BECKMAN RSRCH: $500k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $487k → 16%ZUREIKAT U PITTS: $482k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1.5M → 22%MACKALL STAMFORD: $500k → 7%PCI: $750k → 17%FUEYO UNIV OF TEXAS: $480k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1.4M → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $483k → 9%ZUREIKAT UNIV PITTS: $12k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $32k → 22%PCI: $750k → 17%FUEYO UNIV OF TEXAS: $13k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $40k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $13k → 9%ZUREIKAT UNIV OF PITTS: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES: $930k → 22%PCI: $750k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $6k → 16%GOTTSCHALK ST JUDE: $6k → 17%STEPHAN HUTCHINSON: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES: $498k → 22%BROWNICAHN SCHOOL: $496k → 17%GOTTSCHALK ST JUDE: $2k → 17%FRAIETTE TTEE UPENN: $6k → 22%BROWNICAHN SCHOOL: $673 → 17%FRAIETTE TTEE UPENN: $2k → 22%BROWNICAHN SCHOOL: $213 → 17%POWELL TTEE UPENN: $2k → 22%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
MA
PA
CT
CA
TN
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 9 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -26% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$7.7M
$502k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-26%

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $969k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +11%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    3× · 2021–2023 · $497k · revenue +22%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -26%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
3
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
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
6
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
8
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
11
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
12
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
5/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,250,009 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,494,693 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $495,706 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center+1 more: $7,779 · HealthTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,438,085 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSY…Yale University: $984,523 · EducationYale UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $500,008 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND …ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $496,518 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SI…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $500,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGH…UTMD ANDERSON: $499,913 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $498,913 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALI…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $486,965 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGH…+1 more: $1,629 · OtherAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $1,486,851 · ReligionAMERICAN LEBA…ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $481,606 · Philanthropy
Health$4,248,187Education$3,919,134Other$1,987,420Religion$1,486,851Philanthropy$481,606

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,250,009 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,494,693 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $1,486,851 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,438,085 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $984,523 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $500,008 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $496,518 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $495,706 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,779 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,629 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy Inc 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 16 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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