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Foundation for Women's Cancer at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

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 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$3.2M
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
EMORY UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO$50,000
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
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE - CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY$50,000
SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SERVICES 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 - CENTER FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPY: $50k → 16%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%UNC LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 13%SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY: $30k → 14%DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 22%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 13%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 22%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    5× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +121%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • EU
    Emory University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CITY OF HOPE
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -23%
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
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
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
4
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
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
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
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
11
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
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; 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.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTMD ANDERSON: $542,500 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $155,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $100,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF I…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $75,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMATHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $50,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center: $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 CollegeUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCBaylor College of Medicine: $100,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineEmory University: $100,000 · EducationEmory UniversityThe George Washington University: $100,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $35,000 · EducationMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $275,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERIN…CITY OF HOPE: $75,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPEVanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthVanderbilt University M…Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $50,000 · HealthFox Chase Cancer Center…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS M…MAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CE…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 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $117,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $100,000 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 budgetCITY OF HOPE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VEBA TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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 Foundation for Women's Cancer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation for Women's Cancer. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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 36 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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