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B Cured Inc

To help find a cure for brain cancer through research grants

$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
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.

Health$819kEducation$625kScience & Tech$50k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE$25,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$25,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$20,434
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 71% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $25k → 14%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE CORNELL: $25k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%UCHEALTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL CENTRAL: $8k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $25k → 11%TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE CORNELL: $25k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $25k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $25k → 11%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $20k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $13k → 16%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

ME
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
KY
MD
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 15 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+121%

Still filing today

47%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $100k · revenue +25%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +202%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    3× · 2021–2024 · $95k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2020 · $42k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
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
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
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
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $100,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $87,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIEMORY UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $75,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE CORNELL: $50,000 · OtherWEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE CORNELLMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $49,256 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $42,061 · Other+7 more: $145,000 · Other+7 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANF…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…Baylor College of Medicine: $95,434 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUniversity of Miami: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $50,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$848,817Education$545,434Health$75,000Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $100,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $95,434 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER FKA ROGER WILLIAMS HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 7.1% 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.

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS MEDICAL CENTER FKA ROGER WILLIAMS HOSPITAL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization B Cured Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from B Cured Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $125k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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