Minnesota · Public charity
Children's Cancer Research Fund
CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,575,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Children's Cancer Research Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $3.0M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $6.4M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $8.7M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $5.1M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $8.4M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $11M | 57% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $6.5M | 91% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $4.5M | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $39,096,113 | 9 | 3% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $2,625,096 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $2,375,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $2,237,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc | $1,050,000 | 3 | 7% |
| University of California San Francisco | $875,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Case Western Reserve University | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lad in a Battle LLC | $583,400 | 4 | n/a |
| CLIC Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Utmd Anderson | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $39,096,113 | 9 | 3% |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $2,625,096 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $2,375,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $2,237,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc | $1,050,000 | 3 | 7% |
| University of California San Francisco | $875,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Case Western Reserve University | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lad in a Battle LLC | $583,400 | 4 | n/a |
| CLIC Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Utmd Anderson | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Chicago | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $475,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Momcology | $420,000 | 4 | 63% |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | $408,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $375,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $375,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $375,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Rochester | $325,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of Miami | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Research Institute | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Washington University | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacksonville State University | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Univ of Tx Health Science Ctr of Sa | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Health Care | $99,986 | 1 | 0% |
| Crux Collaborative | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Open Access to Cancer Cures | $36,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lee Memorial Health System Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Children's Cancer Research Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: St Baldrick's Foundation Inc · Rally Foundation Inc · Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation · Johns Hopkins University · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Children's Cancer Research Fund
- How much does Children's Cancer Research Fund give?
- Children's Cancer Research Fund reported 7 grants totaling $2,971,846 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Children's Cancer Research Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (84%), Education (14%), Science & Tech (1%).
- Who are Children's Cancer Research Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Minnesota Foundation ($39M), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ($2.6M), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($2.4M).
- Does Children's Cancer Research Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Children's Cancer Research Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Baldrick's Foundation Inc, Rally Foundation Inc, Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation.
- Where is Children's Cancer Research Fund based?
- Children's Cancer Research Fund is based in MN.
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