Illinois · Public charity
Gateway for Cancer Research
To accelerate practice-changing discoveries in cancer care by harnessing the unrelenting passion of the research community and empowering patients to triumph over their disease.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $282,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Gateway for Cancer Research funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $5.5M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $5.9M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $6.7M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $6.2M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $6.7M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $5.5M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $2.7M | 30% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $5.4M | 53% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Md Anderson Cancer Center | $6,880,218 | 8 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $4,258,111 | 7 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $2,241,995 | 6 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $2,102,676 | 8 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $1,869,309 | 7 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,673,076 | 8 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,500,201 | 3 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,497,331 | 4 | 0% |
| Nmdp Foundation | $1,400,001 | 5 | 2% |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $1,394,666 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Md Anderson Cancer Center | $6,880,218 | 8 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $4,258,111 | 7 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $2,241,995 | 6 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $2,102,676 | 8 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $1,869,309 | 7 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $1,673,076 | 8 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $1,500,201 | 3 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $1,497,331 | 4 | 0% |
| Nmdp Foundation | $1,400,001 | 5 | 2% |
| Seattle Children's Foundation | $1,394,666 | 2 | 1% |
| Washington University | $1,369,661 | 4 | 0% |
| George Mason University | $1,332,676 | 4 | n/a |
| Rutgers the State University of New Jersey | $1,238,395 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Hope National Medical Center | $1,230,357 | 4 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $1,166,552 | 4 | 0% |
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $1,079,277 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $1,010,582 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $980,860 | 2 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $915,855 | 1 | 1% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $807,924 | 2 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $743,462 | 3 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $730,315 | 5 | n/a |
| Arthur G James Cancer Hospital and Richard J Solove Research Institute | $624,012 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | $600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Duke University | $570,230 | 3 | 0% |
| Wayne State University | $546,409 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $532,626 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Utah | $527,827 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $513,377 | 2 | n/a |
| University Hospitals Cleveland Med Ctr | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University Hospitals Health System Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Baylor College of Medicine | $499,667 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $470,067 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Iowa Research Foundation | $460,194 | 2 | 6% |
| City of Hope | $428,379 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California | $413,134 | 1 | n/a |
| Emory University | $368,990 | 3 | 0% |
| Hmh Hospitals Corporation | $331,137 | 1 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $293,658 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $291,698 | 2 | n/a |
| Rutgers the State University | $283,186 | 1 | n/a |
| Oregon Health & Science University | $267,439 | 1 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $262,291 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $260,000 | 1 | 0% |
| State University of Iowa | $239,237 | 1 | n/a |
| Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | $230,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $176,950 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | $159,147 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $128,736 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan State University Research Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gateway for Cancer Research 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: The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · American Heart Association Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Gateway for Cancer Research
- How much does Gateway for Cancer Research give?
- Gateway for Cancer Research reported 18 grants totaling $5,812,285 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gateway for Cancer Research fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Gateway for Cancer Research's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Md Anderson Cancer Center ($6.9M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($4.3M), The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente ($2.2M).
- Does Gateway for Cancer Research fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gateway for Cancer Research?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Mayo Clinic.
- Where is Gateway for Cancer Research based?
- Gateway for Cancer Research is based in IL.
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