· Public charity
American Cancer Society Inc
Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 509 grants below total $23,090,714 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,540,185 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,449,471 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $471k
- $10k–50k383 grants · $7.0M
- $50k–250k58 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network | $9,602,782 |
| U Of Tx Md Anderson Cancer Ctr | $850,955 |
| Patient Advocate Foundation | $351,250 |
| Coriell Institute for Medical Research | $300,000 |
| Texas Oncology Foundation Inc | $212,500 |
| American College Of Surgeons | $201,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | $157,500 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | $150,000 |
| The Ohio State University | $125,000 |
| The Milken Institute | $125,000 |
| Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics Inc | $120,000 |
| Virginia Tech Foundation Inc | $113,694 |
| University Of Miami | $110,000 |
| IMD Guest House Foundation | $100,000 |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $605k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 line in 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 +30% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
1003 repeat relationships — 426 still active in FY2025, 577 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $16M · revenue +162%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +58%
Northwestern University8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- ACACS CAPITAL INCone grant, 2017 · $6.2M · revenue -99% · 98% of their budget
- NANORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4.1M · revenue +136%
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $3.8M
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 matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Calverthealth medical center provides quality inpatient and ambulatory health care to the people of southern maryland that is accessible, cost-effective and compassionate. chmc works in partnership with the community to improve the health…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Hospital Corvallis and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Shoals Community Association Inc. 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 42 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
1271 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. 1271 of the 1,655 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
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: Direct Relief · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Child's Play · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · Mayo Clinic
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 American Cancer Society 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Inc — 39% of income from government
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 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.
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