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Cancer Aid and Research Fund

The Organization provides information and assistance concerning cancer.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

Health$545kFood & Nutrition$20k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $37,200, the rows itemized in this filing. The $115,175 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,975 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.
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
reast Cancer Aid Research Institute$14,000
Children's Cancer Aid Research Institute$12,500
Heart Disease Reseach Institute$10,700
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Indian Diabetes Fund: $13k → 21%American Indian Diabetes Fund: $7k → 21%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $64k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$30k · 47% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Program Support

North America (Canada and Mexico)$28k · 44% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Program Support

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$6k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Program Support

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 7 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -81% since the first grant, against -85% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$541k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-81%
-85%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TW
    TOGETHER WE FIGHT CANCER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $173k · revenue -81%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER AID & RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue -95%
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CANCER AID AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue -82%

Funded once

  • HA
    HEART AND STROKE RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -85%
  • CL
    Childhood Leukemia Research & Assistance Fund
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -86%
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
Cancer Aid and Research Fund

The Organization provides information and assistance concerning cancer. It provides grants, medical equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics that treat cancer and other degenerative diseases.

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2
Cancer Research and Life Foundation

The organization supports development of novel and compassionate therapies and treatment for the poor, the needy, the hopeless and the forgotten stricken with the deadly disease of cancer.

Health
3
Cancer Prevention and Research Fund

The Organizations mission is to assist with cancer prevention and provide medical care and cancer aid assistance to those suffering from the effects of cancer.

Philanthropy
4
Kidney Disease Aid & Research Fund Inc

Funds scientific research grants. Provides medical supplies and equipment to programs that treat kidney and other degenerative diseases. Sponsors kidney disease education, information and nutritional programs.

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5
Alternative Cancer Research Fund

The Organization focuses on providing medical supplies to hospitals and clinics that treat cancer and other degenerative diseases. It provides grants for ongoing research for cancer treatments and alternative therapies. The Organization…

Health
6
Kidney Disease Research & Assistance Fund

The Organization awards grants for Kidney diseases research and assistance programs. It ships humanitarian aid, produce and fruits to impoverished communities to help fight kidney and other degenerative diseases.

Health
7
Cancer Prevention Network

The Organization provides medical equipment and supplies to those afflicted with and suffering from cancer and other degerative diseases. It also provides world relief thru humanitarian aid to those affected by hunger, poverty and natural…

Health
8
Cancer Research and Awareness

Increase awareness for early detection and provide financial resources for breast cancerresearch

Health
9
Razi Health Foundation Inc

Razi Health Foundation is a network of volunteer physicians and philanthropists with a goal of providing medical and non-medical assistance, specially at times of national and global emergencies and disasters for those in need.

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10
Aid for Cancer Research

Support major cancer research initiatives

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11
Childhood Diabetes Research Institute

The Organization supports programs, clinics and hospitals that educate the public, provide therapies, medical equipment and supplies that treat diabetes and other degenerative diseases.

International
12
California Liver Research Institute

California Liver Research Institute is a non-profit research organization that is focused on the advancement of treatment and curing of all forms of liver disease. This includes Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C , Fatty Liver, and Liver Cancer. We…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breast Cancer Aid & Research Institute; the most unlike its peers is The 3000 Club. 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
1/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAST CANCER AID & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $130,450 · HealthBREAST CANCER AID & RESEARCH INSTITUTECHILDREN'S CANCER AID AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,289 · HealthCHILDREN'S CANCER AID AND RESEARCH INSTITUTEBREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND ASSISTANCE FUND: $63,936 · HealthBREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND ASSISTANCE FUNDHEART DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $51,250 · HealthHEART DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTECANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT INSTITUTE: $27,100 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT INSTITUTE+2 more: $10,000 · HealthTOGETHER WE FIGHT CANCER INC: $172,610 · PhilanthropyTOGETHER WE FIGHT CANCER INCTHE 3000 CLUB: $20,150 · Human Servicesreast Cancer Aid Research Institute: $14,000 · Other
Health$358,025Philanthropy$172,610Human Services$20,150Other$14,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTOGETHER WE FIGHT CANCER INC: $172,610 over 6y, 17% of budgetBREAST CANCER AID & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $130,450 over 8y, 7.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER AID AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75,289 over 9y, 18% of budgetBREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND ASSISTANCE FUND: $63,936 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetHEART DISEASE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $51,250 over 6y, 18% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT INSTITUTE: $27,100 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetTHE 3000 CLUB: $20,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildhood Leukemia Research & Assistance Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The 3000 ClubCancer Research and T…Feed My Hungry Childr…Amazonsmile Foundation
The 3000 ClubAZ22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The 3000 Club · Cancer Research and Treatment Institute · Feed My Hungry Children · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Cancer Aid and Research Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cancer Aid and Research Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s 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 · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Cancer Aid and Research Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Cancer Aid and Research Fund 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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