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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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$443k
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 2024.

Health$5.4MScience & Tech$4.8MEducation$40k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,292,580, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,933,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $641,175 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–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$299,615
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$443,162
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$349,803
THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC$299,615
CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE$150,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$25,000
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 11%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $300k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $250k → 11%UPMC DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $100k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $85k → 22%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE AUXIL: $140k → 14%START: $457k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $443k → 16%THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL: $1.4M → 8%GENECENTRIC THERAPEUTICS INC: $88k → 11%SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $592k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $350k → 14%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $126k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $300k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSPITAL: $57k → 16%UPMC DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY: $50k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $83k → 22%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $325k → 17%START: $422k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CAN: $400k → 16%JACKSON LABORATORY: $59k → 11%THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC: $300k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GEN HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $75k → 22%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250k → 17%START: $301k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CAN: $366k → 16%THE BROAD INSTITUTE: $71k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $80k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $61k → 22%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $200k → 17%START: $276k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $165k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $51k → 22%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $150k → 17%START: $268k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CAN: $114k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%START: $264k → 16%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%START: $201k → 16%AMERICAN ASSN FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $138k → 22%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $100k → 17%START: $184k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER: $408k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER: $138k → 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

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WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $710k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$710k · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 11 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$8.4M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+11%

Still filing today

36%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
HealthEducationScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $971k · revenue +95%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $418k · revenue +72%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $261k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $592k · revenue -17%
  • GC
    GREEK CHILDRENS FUND OF MEMORIAL SLOAN - KETTERING CANCER CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $408k · revenue 0%
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2024 · $325k
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.

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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
2
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
3
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
4
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
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
7
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
8
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
9
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
10
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
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
Thomas Jefferson University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Research Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

START: $2,372,302 · OtherSTARTUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,589,098 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUTMD ANDERSON: $1,322,613 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $331,931 · OtherNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $325,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $250,000 · Other+9 more: $562,800 · Other+9 moreThe Broad Institute Inc: $970,544 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $900,000 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $591,809 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTETHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $417,612 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAGREEK CHILDRENS FUND OF MEMORIAL SLOAN - KETTERING CANCER CENTER INC: $407,935 · HealthGREEK CHILDRENS FUND OF MEMORIAL SLOAN -…CHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $302,500 · HealthCHORDOMA FOUNDATIONTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $261,489 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYAmerican Association for Cancer Research Foundation: $138,060 · Health+2 more: $130,000 · HealthNorthwestern University: $349,803 · Recreation & SportsYale University: $150,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION: $28,682 · Science & Tech
Other$6,753,744Health$4,119,949Recreation & Sports$349,803Education$275,000Science & Tech$28,682

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $970,544 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $900,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $591,809 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $417,612 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $302,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $261,489 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE AUXILIARY: $140,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Foundation: $138,060 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN TYPE CULTURE COLLECTION: $28,682 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Chordoma Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chordoma Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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 33 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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