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Concern Foundation

To distribute research grants worldwide to fund cancer research.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
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$5.2MEducation$1.3MRecreation & Sports$120kPhilanthropy$25k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $1,382,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,807,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $425,000 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.1M
$75,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$150,000
USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$90,000
UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$75,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$75,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$75,000
OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$75,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$75,000
THE WISTAR INSTITUTE$75,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$75,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$75,000
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$75,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$75,000
U-GROW PROGRAM CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION$45,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $60k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $60k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CA IRVINE: $60k → 10%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK STONY BROOK: $60k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $60k → 14%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $60k → 17%UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $75k → 16%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $60k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $60k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST LOUIS: $60k → 21%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $60k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $60k → 8%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 15%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $60k → 9%THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO: $60k → 14%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $60k → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CA IRVINE: $60k → 10%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $60k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $75k → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $60k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS: $60k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $60k → 8%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 19%THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO: $60k → 14%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $60k → 16%THE WISTAR INSTITUTE: $75k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $60k → 10%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $60k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $60k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS: $60k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES USC: $225k → 14%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $150k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $90k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $88k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%USC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CA LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CA LOS ANGELES: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
MO
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $425k 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.

Middle East and North Africa$275k · 65% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FUNDING OF RESEARCH LAB

South America$75k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: REPROGRAMMING OF THE METASTATIC NICHE BY TUMOR CELL-DERIVED FACTORS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$75k · 18% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: HOW CHROMATIN DYSFUNCTION DRIVES DEFECTIVE REPAIR IN BRCA MUTANT CANCERS

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.
$4.4M · 32 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
17

Total granted

$4.4M
$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+67%

Still filing today

38%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $797k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationInternationalOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    8× · 2017–2024 · $998k · revenue +78%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +55%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    2× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • WU
    WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS
    one grant, 2017 · $180k
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +67%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
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
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
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
4
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
5
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
6
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
10
City of Hope National Medical Center

To make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. please see schedule o for a continuation of our mission.

Health
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

21 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. 21 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS: $180,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CA LOS ANGELES: $175,000 · OtherBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE: $170,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CA IRVINE: $150,000 · OtherUSC NORRIS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $150,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSON: $150,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $120,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $120,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $120,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST LOUIS: $120,000 · OtherNYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $120,000 · OtherTHE LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $120,000 · OtherBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITALHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $120,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO: $120,000 · Other+28 more: $1,576,000 · Other+28 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $997,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angele…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $180,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $125,576 · HealthBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATIONDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $90,000 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $90,000 · HealthSharsheret Inc: $75,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $52,281 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $448,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHER…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $210,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVE…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationOREGON HEALTH & SCIEN…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $135,000 · EducationTemple University - O…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $90,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHEST…Vanderbilt University: $90,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYBaylor College of Medicine: $60,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $80,000 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,511,000Health$1,760,357Education$1,258,500International$80,000Philanthropy$25,000

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 budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $997,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $448,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $180,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $125,576 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $120,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $52,281 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $25,000 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.

  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% 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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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