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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$703k
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$14MEducation$75k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $2,702,015, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,784,440 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $82,425 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–50k2 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $924k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
$155,192
Median grant
9
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$703,489
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$334,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$333,334
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$332,000
AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA$200,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$166,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UCLA)$155,192
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC$103,000
CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$75,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$75,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$75,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER$37,500
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$37,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $160k → 16%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $334k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $400k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $75k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $346k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $703k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $333k → 11%CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 11%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: $400k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $90k → 12%UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS CLEVELAND MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 17%NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $65k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS: $75k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $150k → 16%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $334k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $400k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA (UCLA): $155k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $279k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $75k → 16%CONNETICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 11%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: $200k → 18%UNIVERSITY COLORADO: $89k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS: $75k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $150k → 16%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $332k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $400k → 8%CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $334k → 14%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $75k → 16%CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 11%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: $100k → 18%UNIVERSITY COLORADO: $47k → 12%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $269k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $168k → 8%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $103k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $338k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $75k → 16%AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA: $100k → 18%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 14%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $75k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $50k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $167k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $75k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $166k → 16%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
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
MS
AL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 14 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$8.6M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+110%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    4× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +121%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +32%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +110%
  • N
    NIHNIA
    one grant, 2022 · $65k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER HOUSTON
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

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
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
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
University of Southern California

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…

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
10
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
11
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai; the most unlike its peers is Teddy Bear Cancer 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

18 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. 18 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $2,500,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · OtherAUGUSTA UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $750,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMUTMD ANDERSON: $703,489 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $610,000 · OtherDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $602,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $225,725 · Other+5 more: $392,692 · Other+5 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,576,324 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAN…Yale University: $1,316,277 · EducationYale UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $333,334 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYBaylor College of Medicine: $225,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $225,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $225,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN…+2 more: $187,500 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,000,832 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERI…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,000,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITA…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $334,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL C…CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S…+5 more: $180,000 · Health+5 moreST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $203,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,583,906Education$4,088,435Health$2,739,832Philanthropy$203,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,576,324 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,316,277 over 6y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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
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.

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…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Curesearch for Children's Cancer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curesearch for Children's Cancer. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home