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Cancer Research Institute Inc

See schedule ocri is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cancer immunotherapy through scientific discovery and global collaboration.

$29M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$2.6M
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 2025.

Health$142MScience & Tech$51MEducation$11MRecreation & Sports$606k
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 39 grants below total $24,161,607, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,527,085 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,365,478 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+23 grants · $21M
$300,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$130M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,555,100
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$2,222,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$1,695,925
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$1,526,100
SAGE BIONETWORKS$1,459,091
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$1,294,500
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$1,283,100
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER$1,250,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$852,200
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$842,458
THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$819,100
WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE$804,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$800,000
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$729,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$633,100
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1.7M → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2.6M → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2.2M → 8%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $1.3M → 14%The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: $7.8M → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER: $1.8M → 13%Washington University School of Medicine: $1.4M → 21%Oregon Health & Science University: $1.4M → 12%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER: $1.3M → 12%SAGE BIONETWORKS: $1.9M → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $9.0M → 19%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $1.6M → 16%University of Pittsburgh: $1.3M → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 8%University of California Los Angeles: $1.3M → 14%The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: $3.6M → 16%SAGE BIONETWORKS: $1.5M → 9%Boston Children's Hospital: $1.6M → 16%The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: $1.7M → 16%Sage Bionetworks: $1.2M → 9%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $1.5M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $3.6M → 10%Sage Bionetworks: $1.2M → 9%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $1.5M → 16%University of California San Francisco: $3.5M → 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1.0M → 16%University of California San Francisco: $2.1M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1.3M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1.2M → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $1.1M → 10%Columbia University Medical Center: $7.9M → 17%Columbia University Medical Center: $1.5M → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION OF HEMATOLOGY: $4.7M → 22%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1.8M → 22%Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy: $16.4M → 10%Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy: $5.5M → 10%Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy: $5.0M → 10%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1.5M → 17%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $1.4M → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $2.4M → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $2.3M → 17%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 17%Weill Medical College of Cornell university: $1.3M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.1M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.1M → 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

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$162M · 51 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
24

Total granted

$162M
$5.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+26%

Still filing today

41%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $819k 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
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • PI
    PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $29M · revenue +173%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $9.7M · revenue +64%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.3M · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $984k · revenue +21%
  • PG
    Personal Genome Diagnostics
    one grant, 2020 · $327k
  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
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
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
3
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
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
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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7
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
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
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
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
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
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Univ of Conn Health Center Auxiliary. 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

46 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. 46 of the 85 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
40/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $15,560,016 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUTMD ANDERSON: $15,230,684 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $9,756,734 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $4,510,350 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers+40 more: $32,824,663 · Other+40 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,011,118 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $9,690,909 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9,211,997 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,218,034 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…Yale University: $5,478,295 · EducationYale UniversityICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,350,954 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT S…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,762,700 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,662,500 · Education+14 more: $10,427,886 · Education+14 morePARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $29,277,002 · HealthPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,304,017 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute…Children's Hospital Corporation: $7,406,150 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporat…The Broad Institute Inc: $2,640,925 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,036,000 · Health+9 more: $2,576,542 · HealthSAGE BIONETWORKS: $6,657,822 · Science & TechThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $1,137,333 · Science & Tech+1 more: $175,500 · Science & TechTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $983,554 · Public Safety & DisasterNorthwestern University: $605,750 · Recreation & Sports
Other$77,882,447Education$64,814,393Health$52,240,636Science & Tech$7,970,655Public Safety & Disaster$983,554Recreation & Sports$605,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $29,277,002 over 6y, 10% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $13,011,118 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $9,690,909 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $9,211,997 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,304,017 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $7,406,150 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSAGE BIONETWORKS: $6,657,822 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,218,034 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $5,478,295 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $5,350,954 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,762,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,662,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $2,640,925 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,036,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEmory University: $1,844,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,636,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,607,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,475,963 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $1,137,333 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $983,554 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $829,900 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $825,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $804,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $750,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $618,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $605,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $299,786 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $243,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University: $243,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $243,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $175,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $175,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $175,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $80,942 over 2y, 0.5% 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 PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds SAGE BIONETWORKS ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗

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 Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…American Cancer Socie…The Scripps Research …Washington UniversityYale UniversityAmerican Lung Associa…The Michael J Fox Fou…Cornell UniversityMayo ClinicNorthwestern Universi…President and Fellows…
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New YorkNY21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · American Cancer Society Inc · The Scripps Research Institute · Washington University · Yale University · American Lung Association · The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · Northwestern University · President and Fellows of Harvard College

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 Research Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cancer Research Institute 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%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 85 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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