· Public charity
Alliance Nctn Foundation
To provide scientific and operational infrastructure for the implementation of innovative clinical and translational research in academic and community settings and to reduce the impact of cancer on people by engaging a comprehensive research network, conducting high quality multidisciplinary cancer control, prevention and treatment…
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51% of Alliance Nctn Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Mayo Clinic, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 66 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Alliance Nctn Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 79 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 85 grants below total $4,538,599 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,698,625 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $160,026 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $481,168 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $423,328 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $418,884 |
| MORTON PLANT HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC | $169,900 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS | $153,423 |
| DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $147,500 |
| SOUTHEAST CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC | $135,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $132,127 |
| CANCER RESEARCH FOR THE OZARKS | $125,500 |
| AURORA HEALTH CARE INC | $120,000 |
| FRANCISCAN HEALTH INDIANAPOLIS | $99,100 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $93,851 |
| THEDACARE INC | $93,000 |
| COLUMBUS NCORP | $88,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $80,197 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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.
83 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2023, 18 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k 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
University of Chicago4× · 2021–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +34%- ACAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS4× · 2020–2023 · $589k · revenue +32%
- AVASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $293k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BWBaltimore Washington Medical Center Incone grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +4%
- TOTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $24k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAone grant, 2020 · $22k
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.
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.
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…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
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…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…
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…
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis 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 53 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 — 2% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 130 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds Morton Plant Hospital Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NRG ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DECATUR MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS COMMUNITY CLINICAL ONCOLOGY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ThedaCare Inc ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare System ↗
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 for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation · Mayo Clinic · American Heart Association Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Yale University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Public Health Institute · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Reach Out and Read Inc
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 Nctn 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
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northwest Hospital Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Valley Hospital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc — 0% of income from government
- Morton Plant Hospital Association 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.