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American Institute for Cancer Research

Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce their cancer risk.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$3.4MHealth$3.2MEducation$1.2M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,219,485, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,636,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,416,678 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k6 grants · $844k
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$165,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$375,000
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$167,002
PURDUE UNIVERSITY$165,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$165,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$164,993
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO -ANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS$100,000
RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$82,490
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY NJ: $6k → 5%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
MD
SC
LA
AL
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.4M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.2M · 83% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH · EDUCATION

North America (Canada and Mexico)$247k · 17% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 4 repeat orgs$5.6M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
30

Total granted

$1.8M
$4.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+26%

Still filing today

25%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $722k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $825k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $413k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2025 · $330k

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $330k
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $248k
  • UO
    UNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON
    one grant, 2021 · $248k
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
6
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
7
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
8
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
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
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
11
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
12
Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)

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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

21 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. 21 of the 43 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)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $824,714 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $412,500 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC HEALTH FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER: $330,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTERTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $329,999 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $247,500 · OtherUNIV OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON: $247,500 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $247,500 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $247,499 · Other+16 more: $2,169,832 · Other+16 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $642,501 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $330,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $330,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $167,002 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $165,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Resea…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $165,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $165,000 · EducationUniversity of Georgia Resear…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $161,631 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIF…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $247,500 · HealthChildren's Hospi…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $247,500 · HealthDana-Farber Canc…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $165,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S H…UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $165,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $164,993 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $164,886 · HealthPENNINGTON BIOME…KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $164,885 · HealthKAISER FOUNDATIO…+1 more: $6,000 · HealthCROSSROADS4HOPE: $6,000 · Human Services
Other$5,432,044Education$2,291,134Health$1,325,764Human Services$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $642,501 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $330,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $330,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $247,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $247,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $167,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $165,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc: $165,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $165,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $164,993 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $164,886 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS: $164,885 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $161,631 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY CENTRAL OHIO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF FANWOOD-SCOTCH PLAINS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS4HOPE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mayo ClinicAmerican Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mayo ClinicMN13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mayo Clinic · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • CROSSROADS4HOPE: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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