Illinois · Public charity
Foundation for Women's Cancer
To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.
- $638k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 78% of the organizations Foundation for Women's Cancer funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $580k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $550k | 78% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $400k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $625k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $265k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $293k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utmd Anderson | $542,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $155,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emory University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The George Washington University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington University | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utmd Anderson | $542,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $155,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Emory University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The George Washington University | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Washington University | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Hope | $75,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Oklahoma | $75,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| New York University School of Medicine Veba Trust | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Drexel University | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Society of Gynecologic Oncology | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Montefiore Medical Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| State University of Iowa | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| State University of Iowa Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Illinois | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Foundation for Women's Cancer supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Mary Kay Ash Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Foundation for Women's Cancer
- How much does Foundation for Women's Cancer give?
- Foundation for Women's Cancer reported 12 grants totaling $637,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Foundation for Women's Cancer fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Foundation for Women's Cancer's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Utmd Anderson ($543k), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($275k), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($155k).
- Does Foundation for Women's Cancer fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Foundation for Women's Cancer?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary Kay Ash Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Foundation for Women's Cancer based?
- Foundation for Women's Cancer is based in IL.
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