Skip to content
Plinth

· Public charity

Dragon Master Initiative

Dragon master foundation's mission is to find and accelerate cures for cancers and other diseases by fostering and rewarding a community of collaboration and innovation.

$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Health$417kOther$156k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $137,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $144,913 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,413 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
$112,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$314k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHOP FOUNDATION$112,500
HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $10k → 8%ONCOCEUTICS: $100k → 22%LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $8k → 8%NEEV KOLTE & BRAVE RONIL FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK: $25k → 17%HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%DDRFA - AWOCCF: $12k → 6%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $6k → 8%ONCOCEUTICS: $30k → 22%CHOP CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF: $25k → 22%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILAD: $10k → 22%CHOP CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF: $9k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$494k · 4 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$494k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $304k · revenue +70%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $34k · revenue +59%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • AW
    ARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -44%
  • NK
    NEEV KOLTE & BRAVE RONIL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +175%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

4
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
5
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
6
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
7
Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Pediatric cancer foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that raises funds for groundbreaking research and early phase clinical trials to eradicate childhood cancer. these trials are conducted by world renowned doctors at the…

Health
8
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
9
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…

Health
10
Children's Brain Tumor Project Foundation

The organization's mission is to raise funds to improve the outcome for children with brain tumors by advancing scientific discovery and clinical research that focuses on:* targeted therapy* effective drug delivery* low treatment-related…

Health
11
Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…

Health
12
Children's Hospital Association
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Neev Kolte & Brave Ronil 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $304,050 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $33,950 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIACHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INCHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC+3 more — $29,395 · Health+3 moreOncoceutics Inc — $130,000 · OtherOncoceutics IncNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $25,768 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY I…
Health$417,395Other$155,768

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $304,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $33,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $25,768 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEEV KOLTE & BRAVE RONIL FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD — $8,395 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dragon Master Initiative funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dragon Master Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Dragon Master Initiative through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph