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Colorectal Cancer Alliance

The mission of the COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE is end colon and rectal cancer and support the nearly 50,000 afflicted with this disease each year.

$4.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$521k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$5.5MEducation$480kScience & Tech$338kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $3,715,837, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,183,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $468,040 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–50k8 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $810k
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.6M
$90,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$521,106
THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$513,333
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$487,500
CITY OF HOPE$480,000
THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES$320,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$280,000
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION$180,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$90,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$90,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$90,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$90,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$90,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$90,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA$90,000
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY$47,500
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $148k → 16%FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $45k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $113k → 10%THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $320k → 10%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $48k → 11%CITY OF HOPE: $480k → 14%Memorial Sloan Kettering Canc: $150k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $573k → 16%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $90k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $45k → 15%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $90k → 14%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNI: $48k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $73k → 11%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $45k → 14%UNIVERSTITY OF COLORADO FUND: $100k → 12%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $280k → 18%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $45k → 19%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSI: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA: $90k → 20%ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE: $100k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $488k → 19%DANA-FARBER RESEARCH CENTER: $100k → 16%UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER: $50k → 11%FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 22%CITY OF HOPE: $240k → 14%Memorial Sloan Kettering Canc: $145k → 17%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $48k → 12%UNIVERSTITY OF COLORADO FOUND: $83k → 12%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSI: $100k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $68k → 19%DANA-FARBER RESEARCH CENTER: $100k → 16%CALIFORNIA COLORECTAL: $51k → 10%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $117k → 14%Memorial Sloan Kettering Canc: $100k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $90k → 14%DANA-FARBER RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $513k → 22%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $68k → 14%Memorial Sloan Kettering Canc: $100k → 17%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $180k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $200k → 22%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%COLONOSCOPY ASSIST: $63k → 14%GO TO KNOW: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $125k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $63k → 22%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

MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 32 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
21

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+13%

Still filing today

41%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $915k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $555k · revenue +1%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +39%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2019–2023 · $200k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2023 · $573k
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $148k · revenue +13%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $145k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
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
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
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
5
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
6
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
10
University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health
11
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
12
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Independent Health Foundation. 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

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 64 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)
26/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTMD ANDERSON: $1,813,606 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $572,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASMemorial Sloan Kettering Canc: $495,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan Kettering CancIndiana University School of Medicine: $370,000 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineDANA-FARBER RESEARCH CENTER: $250,000 · Other+34 more: $2,286,606 · Other+34 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,001,666 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $555,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV…University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $135,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Re…University of Miami: $135,000 · EducationUniversity of MiamiGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY+2 more: $95,000 · EducationCITY OF HOPE: $720,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPETHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $320,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE …CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL C…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $147,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Ins…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $145,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERI…HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $90,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $90,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $78,290 · Health+8 more: $237,107 · Health+8 moreROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $47,500 · Philanthropy
Other$5,787,712Education$2,256,666Health$2,027,897Philanthropy$47,500

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,001,666 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $720,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $555,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $147,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $145,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLORECTAL CANCER COALITION: $90,036 over 3y, 32% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $78,290 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: $58,859 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER: $51,407 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $35,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Health: $30,186 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,050 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC: $15,980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING BRIDGE CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COLORECTAL CANCER COALITION ↗
  • Who funds HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARY CROWLEY MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗

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.

American Heart Associ…American Cancer Socie…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Heart Association IncTX15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Heart Association Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Colorectal Cancer Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colorectal Cancer Alliance. 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 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Adventist Healthcare Inc: 1% 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 64 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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