· Public charity
Children's Tumor Foundation
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $4,215,584 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,493,525 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,277,941 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $442k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $449,795 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $437,707 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $336,410 |
| SAGE BIONETWORKS | $328,754 |
| NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE | $242,758 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES | $234,442 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $230,224 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $228,194 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $189,658 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $166,667 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $161,688 |
| OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $92,372 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $82,600 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $79,708 |
| CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL | $79,708 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $1.1M on the FY2024 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.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH - CONTRACT AWARD AND YIA · RESEARCH - YIA · RESEARCH - CONTRACT AWARD
Stated purpose: RESEARCH - CONTRACT AWARD
Stated purpose: RESEARCH - NF CLINIC NETWORK
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SBSAGE BIONETWORKS8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +137%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +76%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +159%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2018 · $395k
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE & CELL THERAPYone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +3%
- IUIndiana University School of Medicineone grant, 2017 · $257k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
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…
Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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…
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.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins All Children's Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAGE BIONETWORKS ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF GENE & CELL THERAPY ↗
- Who funds Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · American Cancer Society Inc · Public Health Institute · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Mayo Clinic · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · Blood Cancer United Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Children's Tumor Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 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
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
- Variety Children's Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Center for Human Genetics Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Florida Hospital Medical Group Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.