· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $750,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $723,465 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $470,067 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ST LOUIS | $421,954 |
| BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $378,993 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $368,841 |
| THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $364,322 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $282,500 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER | $275,830 |
| CEDARS- SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $262,291 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MOUNT SINAI | $247,821 |
| THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $199,765 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $188,051 |
| CITY OF HOPE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $161,712 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +123%- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles8× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +78%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +145%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue +110%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $916k · revenue 0%- AGARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $624k · revenue +227%
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.
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.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
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…
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.
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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,…
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…
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gateway for Cancer Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gateway for Cancer Research. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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