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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.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
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$1.2M
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $55,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,000 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.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alex's Lemonade Stand$20,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Dana-Farber Cancer Institution: $50k → 16%ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $200k → 7%Penn State University College of Medicine: $140k → 12%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $75k → 22%Stanford University: $100k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LA: $25k → 10%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%THE HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN: $25k → 14%LEE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%FLASHES OF HOPE CHICAGO: $10k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - CHICAGO: $25k → 14%ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $60k → 7%The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc: $25k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%PERIWINKLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%Alex's Lemonade Stand: $10k → 11%FLASHES OF HOPE CHICAGO: $10k → 17%Alex's Lemonade Stand: $20k → 7%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $37k → 16%Flashes of Hope Houston: $5k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $25k → 16%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
DC
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$435k · 4 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$435k
$534k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+44%

Still filing today

75%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AL
    ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $290k · revenue +23%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +88%
  • TP
    The Periwinkle Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $140k
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +44%
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.

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Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
2
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
3
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
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
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
7
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
8
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
9
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
10
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children

To provide the highest quality care to improve the lives of children with orthopedic and related conditions and specific learning disabilities. texas scottish rite hospital for children focuses on patient care, research and education.

Health
11
Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…

Health
12
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's National Rehabilitation and Specialized Care; the most unlike its peers is Flashes of Hope. 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $290,000 · OtherALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATIONPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYFLASHES OF HOPE: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYBaylor College of Medicine: $25,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Inst…Texas Children's Hospital: $36,745 · HealthTexas Children's Hospit…THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY…CHILDREN'S NATIONAL REHABILITATION AND SPECIALIZED CARE: $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL REH…+1 more: $6,849 · HealthLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyThe Periwinkle Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$505,000Education$325,000Health$243,594Philanthropy$70,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

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 budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $290,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 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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