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American-Italian Cancer Foundation

To support cancer research, education and early detection, (cont.

$916k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$5.0M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $783,981 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $915,891 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $131,910 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $742k
$60,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$240,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY$202,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$119,981
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$60,000
YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$60,000
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$60,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE$42,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $40k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $160k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $40k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $80k → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $40k → 7%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $40k → 28%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 21%YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $60k → 12%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 15%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $42k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%NIAMS: $40k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $40k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $80k → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $40k → 7%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $40k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $40k → 21%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $60k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $40k → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $40k → 7%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $240k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $40k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $120k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $40k → 14%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $202k → 17%MASSACHSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $80k → 16%UCLA: $40k → 14%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $40k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $40k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $80k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $40k → 17%MASSACHSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $27k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $40k → 16%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $60k → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $40k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $80k → 17%JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $34k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $40k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
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CA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 12 repeat orgs$698k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$3.4M
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+20%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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 Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $760k · revenue +98%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $600k · revenue +70%
  • Cornell University
    7× · 2018–2024 · $513k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +20%
  • UC
    UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $40k
  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
8
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
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
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
11
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%63%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
19/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Cornell University — $513,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $369,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN …Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $207,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNew York University — $160,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $160,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STA…Yale University — $100,000 · EducationYale UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $80,000 · Education+4 more — $160,000 · Education+4 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $759,981 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $600,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERChildren's Hospital Corporation — $86,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $80,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS — $60,000 · Health+3 more — $116,000 · Health+3 moreMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $520,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPOR…REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $320,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers — $202,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of Corn…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $80,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPOR…+4 more — $160,000 · Other+4 moreCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $120,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,749,000Health$1,701,981Other$1,282,000Science & Tech$120,000Recreation & Sports$80,000Philanthropy$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $759,981 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $600,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $513,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $369,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $207,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $86,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS — $80,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC — $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization American-Italian Cancer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to American-Italian Cancer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to American-Italian Cancer Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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