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Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. See schedule o for continuation.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Itemized grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$2.7M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$155,192
Largest grant, FY2024
$703,489
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$7.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Curesearch for Children's Cancer funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$2.7M43%
FY202310$1.6M30%
FY202212$2.3M58%
FY20215$1.7M40%
FY20203$688k33%
FY20193$504k33%
FY20182$421k0%
FY20177$613kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$14MEducation$75k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Florida$2,500,0003n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$1,000,83240%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$1,000,00030%
Augusta University$800,0004n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham$750,0002n/a
Utmd Anderson$703,4891n/a
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$610,0005n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$602,0003n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$334,00010%
Washington University$333,33410%
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All grantees of Curesearch for Children's Cancer by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Florida$2,500,0003n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$1,000,83240%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$1,000,00030%
Augusta University$800,0004n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham$750,0002n/a
Utmd Anderson$703,4891n/a
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$610,0005n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$602,0003n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$334,00010%
Washington University$333,33410%
Regents of the University of Colorado$225,7253n/a
Baylor College of Medicine$225,00030%
Johns Hopkins University$225,00040%
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$225,00030%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$203,00020%
Regents Univ of California$155,1921n/a
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$112,50020%
University Hospitals Health System Inc$112,5002n/a
Emory University$75,00010%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$75,00010%
Seattle Children's Hospital$75,00010%
Nihnia$65,0001n/a
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston$50,0001n/a
Methodist Children's Hospital$10,00010%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois$10,0001n/a
Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Inc$10,00010%
Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation$10,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Curesearch for Children's Cancer supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $1,000,832 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $334,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington University: $333,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Children's Foundation Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $203,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $112,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Hospital: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMethodist Children's Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAssociation of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTeddy Bear Cancer Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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 Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Curesearch for Children's Cancer

How much does Curesearch for Children's Cancer give?
Curesearch for Children's Cancer reported 14 itemized grants totaling $2,702,015, out of $2,784,440 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Curesearch for Children's Cancer fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (99%), Education (1%).
Who are Curesearch for Children's Cancer's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Florida ($2.5M), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($1.0M), The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ($1.0M).
Does Curesearch for Children's Cancer fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Curesearch for Children's Cancer?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Curesearch for Children's Cancer based?
Curesearch for Children's Cancer is based in MD.

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 30 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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