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Brad Kaminsky Foundation

To fund childhood and adult brain tumor and cancer research.

$91k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$30k
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 2022.

Health$636k
02FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
$18,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$130k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's National Medical Center$30,000
Children's Hospital Philadelphia$20,000
UCLA Department of Neurosugery$18,000
Childrens Hospital of LA$15,000
Children's Hospital Philadelphia$7,500
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Children's Hospital Philadelphia: $20k → 22%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LA: $20k → 14%TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%Children's National Medical Center: $85k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY - BRAIN TUMOR CNTR: $10k → 11%HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $23k → 7%Children's Hospital Philadelphia: $8k → 22%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LA: $16k → 14%Texas Childrens Hospital: $10k → 16%CHILDRENS NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%Childrens Hospital LA: $15k → 14%Children's National Medical Center: $30k → 14%Childrens Hospital: $15k → 14%CHILDRENS NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 14%Childrens Hospital of LA: $15k → 14%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LA: $12k → 14%UCLA: $35k → 14%UCLA DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $35k → 14%UCLA DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $34k → 14%UCLA DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $28k → 14%UCLA Department of Neurosugery: $18k → 14%UCLA Department of Neurosurgery: $17k → 14%CEDAR SINAI DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $22k → 14%Cedars Sinai: $17k → 14%CEDAR SINAI DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $13k → 14%CEDAR SINAI DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $8k → 14%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$378k · 5 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$378k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEducationOther
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

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $175k · revenue +21%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    6× · 2017–2022 · $93k · revenue +78%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • BT
    BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH CHARITY
    one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +6%
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2017 · $35k
  • HH
    HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
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
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
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
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
4
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
5
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
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
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
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
10
Rhode Island Hospital

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

Health
11
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; the most unlike its peers is Brain Tumor Research Charity. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $175,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $92,810 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $60,257 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERBRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH CHARITY: $40,855 · HealthBRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH CHARITYTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $27,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAHMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $22,631 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital: $20,000 · HealthUCLA FOUNDATION: $132,089 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $35,136 · Other
Health$439,053Education$162,089Other$35,136

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 budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $175,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $132,089 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $92,810 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $60,257 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH CHARITY: $40,855 over 1y, 15% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $22,631 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $20,000 over 2y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 10 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 2022, released 2022. 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 $30k 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 FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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