· Public charity
Chordoma Foundation
The mission of the CHORDOMA FOUNDATION is to improve the lives of those affected by chordoma and lead the search for a cure.
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 13 grants below total $2,402,569 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,731,199 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,328,630 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $429k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER | $407,935 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CAN | $400,000 |
| NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $325,000 |
| THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC | $299,789 |
| START | $275,562 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN ASSN FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $138,060 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA | $84,723 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSPITAL | $56,500 |
| THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| UPMC DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY | $50,000 |
| REDESIGN SCIENCE INC | $15,000 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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 — $940k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
Stated purpose: RESEARCH
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 +74% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $986k 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
- TBThe Broad Institute Inc3× · 2017–2024 · $671k · revenue +95%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA7× · 2018–2024 · $418k · revenue +72%
- TJTHE JACKSON LABORATORY5× · 2017–2022 · $261k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2023 · $592k · revenue -17%
- CFCHORDOMA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $303k · revenue +158%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAone grant, 2021 · $250k
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.
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…
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Please see schedule o
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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.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Research Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds GREEK CHILDRENS FUND OF MEMORIAL SLOAN - KETTERING CANCER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHORDOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds American Association for Cancer Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Chordoma 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.
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% 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.