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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$573k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $137,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $144,913 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,413 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–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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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 & 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
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
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
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation; 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 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 9 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Online Givin…
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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 Dragon Master Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dragon Master Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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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