· Public charity
Curebound
CUREBOUND's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+9 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC SAN DIEGO | $5,743,423 |
| SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS | $1,529,548 |
| THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES | $849,414 |
| SCRIPPS RESEARCH | $537,267 |
| LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY | $385,027 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $337,270 |
| BEKEN BIO INC | $250,000 |
| ILLUDENT INC | $250,000 |
| RESOLUTE SCIENCE INC | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $100,000 |
| RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $6,650 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $687k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies7× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +38%
- USUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +45%
- RCRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO7× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +60%
Funded once
- PTPALM THERAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2024 · $250k
- SBSEREN BIO CORPone grant, 2024 · $250k
- RCRady's Children Hospital San Diegoone grant, 2023 · $226k
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.
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.
To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…
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…
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,…
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Charles r. drew university of medicine and science is a private non-profit student-centered university that is committed to cultivating diverse health professional leaders who are dedicated to social justice and health equity for…
The sanford consortium is a collaboration among five preeminent life science research institutions formed to enable renowned scientists with expertise in stem cell and regenerative medicine research to collaborate to seek transformative…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
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.
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Curebound funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curebound. Bigger dots raise more.
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