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H8 Cancer Foundation

Formed and organized to educate, raise cancer awareness, and provide support to those affected by various forms of cancer and dedicated to raising funds for research and promote awareness of treatment to save lives.

$612k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.6MPhilanthropy$27kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$250k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATION$150,000
CANCER COMMONS$150,000
STEPHANIE VEST FOUNDATION$100,000
CANCER ACTION$50,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA$50,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$50,000
CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP QUALITY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BE THE MATCH$10,000
DERON CHERRY FOUNDATION$6,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BE THE MATCH: $10k → 11%CANCER COMMONS: $150k → 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $50k → 9%Endeavor Foundation: $15k → 14%BLANKS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $25k → 10%CANCER ACTION: $50k → 5%FIGHT DIRTY: $10k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $50k → 17%SAVANNA SMILES: $10k → 10%BE THE MATCH: $10k → 11%CANCER COMMONS: $150k → 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $50k → 9%Hope Cancer Foundation: $15k → 14%CANCER ACTION: $50k → 5%FIGHT DIRTY: $10k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDRENS: $50k → 17%BE THE MATCH FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%CANCER COMMONS: $100k → 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $25k → 9%HOPE FOR CANCER: $15k → 14%CANCER ACTION: $25k → 5%Jennifer Ireland Foundation: $10k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA: $50k → 17%CANCER COMMONS: $100k → 8%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $10k → 9%CANCER ACTION: $25k → 5%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%Cancer Commons: $100k → 8%Jennifer Ireland Foundation: $10k → 15%Cancer Commons: $100k → 8%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%Cancer Commons: $100k → 8%VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $50k → 15%RJ Childrens Haven: $30k → 15%RJ Childrens Haven: $20k → 15%STEPHANIE VEST FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%STEPHANIE VEST FOUNDATION: $70k → 15%STEPHANIE VEST FOUNDATION: $65k → 15%STEPHANIE VEST FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%STEPHANIE VEST FOUNDATION: $30k → 15%Stephanie Vest Foundation: $25k → 15%CAMP QUALITY: $10k → 15%DERON CHERRY FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%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
NY
IA
IN
CA
MO
KS
AR
TN
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 12 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 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

12
4

Total granted

$2.6M
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+306%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CANCER COMMONS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $800k · revenue +29%
  • SK
    SUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +76%
  • SV
    Stephanie Vest Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $340k · revenue +96% · 55% of their budget

Funded once

  • BC
    BLANKS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HC
    Hope Cancer Resourcesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +38%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
2
The Cancer Foundation Inc
—
3
Imagine a Cure Cancer Treatment
Health
4
Access to Cancer Care Foundation
—
5
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
6
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
7
We Beat Cancer
Philanthropy
8
The Jed Ian Taxel Foundation for Rare Cancer Research Inc

To inspire and empower scientific breakthroughs, clinical trials and improved treatments which change lives and enable better outcomes for rare cancer patients and their families.

Health
9
Kadet Cancer Research Foundation
—
10
Cancer Research and Life Foundation

The organization supports development of novel and compassionate therapies and treatment for the poor, the needy, the hopeless and the forgotten stricken with the deadly disease of cancer.

Health
11
Williams Cancer Foundation
—
12
Shoot Down Kids Cancer Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Commons; the most unlike its peers is Stephanie Vest Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANCER COMMONS: $800,000 · HealthCANCER COMMONSStephanie Vest Foundation: $340,000 · HealthStephanie Vest FoundationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCCANCER ACTION INC: $150,000 · HealthCANCER ACTION INCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $135,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC+2 more: $65,000 · HealthSUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATION: $700,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATIONVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · OtherVISITING NUR…RJ Childrens Haven INC: $50,000 · OtherRJ Childrens…BLANKS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $25,000 · OtherBLANKS CHILD…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual g…Jennifer Ireland Foundation: $20,000 · OtherJennifer Ire…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherCAMP QUALITY: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherNMDP FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyDERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Philanthropy
Health$1,640,000Human Services$700,000Other$300,000Philanthropy$51,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCANCER COMMONS: $800,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetSUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATION: $700,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetStephanie Vest Foundation: $340,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ACTION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRJ Childrens Haven INC: $50,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHope Cancer Resources: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEXCELLERATE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

  • Who funds CANCER COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Stephanie Vest Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds RJ Childrens Haven INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hope Cancer Resources ↗
  • Who funds EXCELLERATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

American Online Givin…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 H8 Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from H8 Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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 · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to H8 Cancer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to H8 Cancer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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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