· Public charity
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation
To aid the alliance for clinical trials in oncology national clinical trials cooperative group and support the clinical trials and laboratory research of the alliance, as well as efforts to educate the medical community on methods of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 109 grants below total $12,774,119 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,639,183 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,865,064 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+14 grants · $9.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,962,448 |
| ALLIANCE NCTN FOUNDATION | $922,160 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $764,553 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI CANCER CENTER | $736,549 |
| ECOG-ACRIN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $637,733 |
| NRG ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION INC | $579,938 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $531,176 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $498,422 |
| ADAPTIVE BIOTECHNOLOGIES | $494,055 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $470,561 |
| SWOG - CLINICAL TRIALS INITIATIVE LLC | $417,954 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $395,497 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $295,675 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - | $290,190 |
| SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $163,996 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +35% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
120 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $357k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +51%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +132%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +76%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2020 · $174k
- WPWhite Plains Hospital Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $69k · revenue +47%
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Centergraduatedone grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue +91%
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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…
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…
The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmh Hospitals Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
99 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. 99 of the 161 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ECOG-ACRIN MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NRG ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE NCTN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Baylor Research Institute ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH - MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Alliance Nctn Foundation · Mayo Clinic · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · American Heart Association Inc · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Yale University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Public Health Institute · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Johns Hopkins University
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine — 100% of income from government
- Medstar Health Research Institute Inc — 25% of income from government
- Veterans Education and Research Association of Northern New England Inc — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc — 0% 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.