California · Public charity
Curebound
CUREBOUND's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. We raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.
- $10M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $337,270
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,743,423
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Curebound funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $10M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $7.1M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $4.4M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $3.0M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $3.1M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2.9M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of California | $13,805,459 | 3 | n/a |
| Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego | $4,659,773 | 3 | n/a |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $3,850,664 | 8 | 1% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $2,942,844 | 7 | 0% |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $2,185,730 | 2 | 1% |
| La Jolla Institute for Immunology | $1,985,719 | 4 | 1% |
| Rady Children's Hospital San Diego | $1,753,211 | 7 | 0% |
| Scripps Health | $950,885 | 3 | 0% |
| Beken Bio Inc | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Resolute Science Inc | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents of the University of California | $13,805,459 | 3 | n/a |
| Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego | $4,659,773 | 3 | n/a |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $3,850,664 | 8 | 1% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $2,942,844 | 7 | 0% |
| Uc San Diego Foundation | $2,185,730 | 2 | 1% |
| La Jolla Institute for Immunology | $1,985,719 | 4 | 1% |
| Rady Children's Hospital San Diego | $1,753,211 | 7 | 0% |
| Scripps Health | $950,885 | 3 | 0% |
| Beken Bio Inc | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Resolute Science Inc | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation | $337,270 | 1 | 0% |
| Palm Therapeutics Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Illudent Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Seren Bio Corp | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rady's Children Hospital San Diego | $225,575 | 1 | n/a |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $175,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Arizona | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Curebound supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Scripps Research Institute · The San Diego Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Curebound
- How much does Curebound give?
- Curebound reported 11 grants totaling $10,238,599 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Curebound fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Curebound's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of California ($14M), Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego ($4.7M), Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute ($3.9M).
- Does Curebound fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Curebound?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Scripps Research Institute, The San Diego Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Curebound based?
- Curebound is based in CA.
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