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Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Our mission is to eliminate pediatric cancer while providing hope and support to those who are touched by it. Our vision is a world without pediatric cancer.Forty-three children are diagnosed with cancer daily, and pediatric cancer remains the leading cause of death from disease among children. Even so, less than 4% of the total federal…

$55k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$20k0%
FY20231$10k0%
FY20221$200k0%
FY20202$110k100%
FY201810$270k70%
FY20178$359kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$290,00051%
Pennsylvania State University$140,0001n/a
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$100,00020%
The Rockefeller University$50,00020%
Case Western Reserve University$50,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$50,00010%
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Texas Children's Hospital$36,74510%
Baylor College of Medicine$25,00010%
Flashes of Hope$25,00031%
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All grantees of Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$290,00051%
Pennsylvania State University$140,0001n/a
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$100,00020%
The Rockefeller University$50,00020%
Case Western Reserve University$50,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$50,00010%
Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc$50,0001n/a
Texas Children's Hospital$36,74510%
Baylor College of Medicine$25,00010%
Flashes of Hope$25,00031%
The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Regents Univ of California$25,0002n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan$25,0001n/a
Children's National Rehabilitation and Specialized Care$25,00010%
Northwestern University$25,00010%
The Periwinkle Foundation$20,00021%
Seattle Children's Healthcare System$6,84910%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $290,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rockefeller University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $36,745 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlashes of Hope: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's National Rehabilitation and Specialized Care: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Periwinkle Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSeattle Children's Healthcare System: $6,849 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation

How much does Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation give?
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $20,000, out of $55,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation ($290k), Pennsylvania State University ($140k), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($100k).
Does Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation based?
Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation is based in IL.

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 18 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 $15k 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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