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Five for the Fight Foundation

FIVE FOR THE FIGHT FOUNDATION is a nonprofit organization established to raise funds to be donated directly to cancer research in an effort to eradicate the disease.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$928k
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$47MEducation$140kScience & Tech$115k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $1,660,648, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,699,776 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,128 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

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$8,376
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION$928,360
PRIMARY CHILDREN'S CANCER$703,312
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$8,376
PHOENIX CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$8,280
CITY OF HOPE$6,760
UNIVERSITY OF HI$5,560
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 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PHOENIX CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $32k → 16%CITY OF HOPE: $37k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HI: $23k → 9%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $125k → 16%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $13.9M → 8%DDX FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $43k → 9%ROBERT H LURIE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $10k → 14%PHOENIX CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $19k → 16%CITY OF HOPE: $29k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HI: $8k → 9%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $8k → 16%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $21.7M → 8%DDX FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $38k → 9%PHOENIX CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $16k → 16%CITY OF HOPE: $26k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HI: $8k → 9%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $6k → 16%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $9k → 14%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1.4M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WA: $31k → 9%PHOENIX CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%CITY OF HOPE: $16k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HI: $6k → 9%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WA: $10k → 9%PHOENIX CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%CITY OF HOPE: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HI: $6k → 9%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 8%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $5k → 9%CITY OF HOPE: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HI: $5k → 9%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $928k → 8%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $800k → 8%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $183k → 8%HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $88k → 8%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
MA
CA
UT
AZ
TN
NC
HI
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 12 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$34M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+1%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HC
    HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +63% · 38% of their budget
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +15%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $78k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • IH
    INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14M · revenue -20%
  • B
    BREAKTHROUGH
    one grant, 2018 · $115k
  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +14%
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
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
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
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
4
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

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
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
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
8
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
Riordan Clinic Inc

To provide medical research and education and to serve in ways that stimulates an epidemic of health among those interested in improving their well-being.

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12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Ddx Foundation 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

10 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. 10 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $27,289,925 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATIONINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $13,878,089 · HealthINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $376,014 · HealthPRIMARY CHILDREN'S CANCER: $5,703,312 · OtherPRIMARY CHILDR…+7 more: $436,999 · Other+7 moreVanderbilt University: $43,340 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $6,693 · EducationNorthwestern University: $10,483 · Recreation & Sports
Health$41,544,028Other$6,140,311Education$50,033Recreation & Sports$10,483

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 budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $27,289,925 over 8y, 38% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $13,878,089 over 1y, 12% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $126,525 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $121,405 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $85,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $78,084 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDDX Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetVanderbilt University: $43,340 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,483 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $6,693 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 HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds DDX Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Five for the Fight Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Five for the Fight Foundation. 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 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
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 17 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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