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Curing Kids Cancer Inc

The Organization was formed in 2005 and is dedicated to changing the world of childhood cancer by bringing awareness to childhood cancer and by funding the development of treatments, primarily in the United States, that are more effective and less toxic than traditional childhood cancer therapies.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$445k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$12MScience & Tech$1.2MEducation$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $645k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$150,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$866k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Emory University$445,000
Prisma Health Childrens Hosp$360,000
Childrens Medical Center Fou$320,667
Nationwide Child Hos Research$250,000
Seattle Childrens Hospital$167,000
Albert Einstein College of M$150,000
UT Southwestern Health Sys$150,000
Osteosarcoma Institute$112,350
Childrens Hospital of Phila$66,000
Texas Childrens Cancer Cent$39,000
Helen DeVos Childrens Hosp$25,000
Childrens Hospital LA$15,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA-FARBER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 7%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $300k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $150k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $150k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $810k → 14%HEALTH RESEARCH INC ROSWELL PARK D: $150k → 14%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $150k → 17%Albert Einstein College of M: $150k → 28%Childrens Medical Center Fou: $321k → 14%TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER: $200k → 16%PRISMA HEALTH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $240k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG: $150k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO: $650k → 14%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NAT CHILD HOS: $270k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $310k → 14%Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $100k → 17%UT Southwestern Health Sys: $150k → 14%TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER: $150k → 16%Prisma Health Childrens Hosp: $360k → 16%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $172k → 14%Nationwide Child Hos Research: $250k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $300k → 14%TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER: $150k → 16%Prisma Health Childrens Hosp: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $150k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250k → 15%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $150k → 16%Nationwide Child Hos Research: $250k → 15%Osteosarcoma Institute: $112k → 14%Emory University: $445k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $150k → 15%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $150k → 16%Emory University: $245k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125k → 15%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $150k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $245k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $150k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $150k → 14%Childrens Healthcare of ATL: $388k → 14%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $150k → 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
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
SC
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 25 repeat orgs$5.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
53

Total granted

$11M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+39%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
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
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +78%
  • EU
    Emory University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $971k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $388k
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $300k
  • PH
    Prisma Health-Midlandsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $240k · revenue +39%
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
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
8
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
9
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
10
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
11
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
12
Rhode Island Hospital

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Health Research Inc. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 82 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)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $1,605,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $970,667 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $970,000 · HealthPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $685,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncTexas Children's Hospital: $650,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $566,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIACHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $477,375 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC+22 more: $2,285,755 · Health+22 moreNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $770,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCDANA FARBER CANCER INST: $400,000 · OtherDANA FARBER CANCER INSTCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $388,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $375,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCSeattle Children's Foundation: $372,000 · OtherSeattle Children's FoundationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · OtherBaylor College of Medicine: $225,000 · OtherTEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $205,000 · Other+35 more: $3,009,535 · Other+35 moreEmory University: $1,250,000 · EducationEmory Universit…Baylor College of Medicine: $200,000 · EducationBaylor College …New York University: $150,000 · EducationNew York Univer…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIV…Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $150,000 · EducationAlbert Einstein…Yale University: $150,000 · EducationYale UniversityCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · Education+2 more: $40,000 · Education
Health$8,209,797Other$6,044,535Education$2,290,000

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: $1,605,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $970,667 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $970,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $685,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $650,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $566,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $477,375 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $372,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrisma Health-Midlands: $240,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $203,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM GUY FORBECK RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM OF TEXAS: $78,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $35,405 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Louisville Research Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $10,000 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 Emory University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Prisma Health-Midlands ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Nationwide Children's Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗

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.

Reach Out and Read IncHyundai Hope on WheelsUnited Way WorldwideAmerican Cancer Socie…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…
Reach Out and Read IncMA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reach Out and Read Inc · Hyundai Hope on Wheels · United Way Worldwide · American Cancer Society Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Curing Kids Cancer Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Curing Kids Cancer Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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