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Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

$638k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Health$3.2M
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $575k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$100,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$75,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$50,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$50,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$50,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO$50,000
SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $75k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 22%CITY OF HOPE: $75k → 14%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 28%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SERVICES CENTER: $50k → 16%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $125k → 17%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $25k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 11%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $100k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $25k → 19%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $68k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100k → 22%CEDARS-SINAI MEDICINE CENTER: $50k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $100k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY: $50k → 16%BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER: $25k → 16%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $118k → 17%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $25k → 15%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN SAINT LOUIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL: $55k → 13%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75k → 22%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $75k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 16%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 13%SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY: $30k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 22%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 13%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
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PA
CA
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 11 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$1.7M
$935k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+27%

Still filing today

55%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthMembership BenefitOther

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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +121%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +13%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -14%

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
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
2
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
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
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
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
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
7
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
8
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
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
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
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
12
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 69 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%67%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%0%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%76%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,519

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
23/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UTMD ANDERSON — $542,500 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $155,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $100,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $100,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF I…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA — $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMATHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — $50,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Other+3 more — $75,000 · Other+3 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $275,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $117,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeThe George Washington University — $100,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYBaylor College of Medicine — $100,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineEmory University — $100,000 · EducationEmory UniversityUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCDUKE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $50,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $50,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $35,000 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $275,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERIN…CITY OF HOPE — $75,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPEBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS M…Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation — $50,000 · HealthFox Chase Cancer Center…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CE…MAYO CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICVanderbilt University Medical Center — $50,000 · HealthVanderbilt University M…SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY — $30,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 · HealthNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VEBA TRUST — $50,000 · Membership Benefit
Other$1,247,500Education$1,202,500Health$655,000Membership Benefit$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $117,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VEBA TRUST — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,000 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mary Kay Ash Foundati…National Philanthropi…
Mary Kay Ash FoundationTX13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mary Kay Ash Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Foundation for Women's Cancer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 36 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.

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