How much does Head for the Cure Foundation give?

Head for the Cure Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $814,670 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Head for the Cure Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).

Who are Head for the Cure Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nihnia ($1.6M), The Kansas University Endowment Association ($1.2M), Henry Ford Health System ($546k).

Does Head for the Cure Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Head for the Cure Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.

Where is Head for the Cure Foundation based?

Head for the Cure Foundation is based in MO.

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Missouri · Public charity

Head for the Cure Foundation

The mission of the HEAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION (hftc) is threefold: to build awareness, raise funding, and inspire hope for the community of brain cancer patients, their families, friends, caregivers and other supporters, while celebrating their courage, spirit and energy.

$815k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 36
Grants FY2024: 32
Organizations funded FY2023: 13%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $14,500
Largest grant, FY2024: $180,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 33; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 16
Total assets, FY2024: $713k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Head for the Cure Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationReligionHuman 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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	35	$801k	9%
FY2023	32	$771k	13%
FY2022	33	$822k	24%
FY2021	28	$921k	18%
FY2020	30	$942k	13%
FY2019	29	$1.3M	31%
FY2018	18	$531k	17%
FY2017	17	$941k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$7.0M

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nihnia	$1,650,000	4	n/a
The Kansas University Endowment Association	$1,245,000	8	0%
Henry Ford Health System	$545,800	8	0%
Utmd Anderson	$318,300	8	n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$290,500	8	n/a
Washington University	$249,750	8	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$246,500	8	0%
Texas Oncology	$203,750	8	n/a
University of Washington Foundation	$161,000	8	0%
University Health Foundation	$143,000	8	1%

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All grantees of Head for the Cure Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nihnia	$1,650,000	4	n/a
The Kansas University Endowment Association	$1,245,000	8	0%
Henry Ford Health System	$545,800	8	0%
Utmd Anderson	$318,300	8	n/a
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente	$290,500	8	n/a
Washington University	$249,750	8	0%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	$246,500	8	0%
Texas Oncology	$203,750	8	n/a
University of Washington Foundation	$161,000	8	0%
University Health Foundation	$143,000	8	1%
The Children's Mercy Hospital	$125,000	3	0%
University of Nebraska Foundation	$108,650	6	0%
Cornell University	$107,800	4	0%
Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation	$104,150	8	0%
Northwestern University	$98,100	8	0%
Advocate Charitable Foundation	$93,700	5	0%
Brain Cancer Awareness 5k Ltd	$84,000	6	67%
University of Pittsburgh	$84,000	6	0%
Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers	$80,000	4	n/a
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation	$75,000	3	0%
Northwell Health Foundation	$72,400	4	0%
Jaxons Frog Foundation	$68,000	8	n/a
Barrow Neurological Foundation	$64,950	6	0%
Unc Health Foundation Inc	$63,300	7	0%
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation	$57,600	6	0%
Advocate Health Care Network	$56,200	3	0%
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	$50,000	1	0%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Orlando Health Inc	$42,600	4	0%
Dragon Master Initiative	$40,200	5	5%
Curators of the University of Missouri	$38,000	5	n/a
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$36,750	5	0%
Arthur G James Cancer Hospital and Richard J Solove Research Institute	$32,600	3	19%
Regents of the University of Michigan	$30,000	1	n/a
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations	$29,900	3	0%
Seattle Children's Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Bike Walk Kc	$24,500	1	1%
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc	$22,750	2	n/a
Midland Memorial Foundation	$22,400	3	n/a
Kansas City Hospice Inc	$22,000	3	0%
Solace House	$20,000	4	n/a
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Cancer Commons	$17,500	1	1%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$16,250	1	0%
Piedmont Healthcare Inc	$15,000	2	0%
Grey Matters Brain Tumor Support Group	$15,000	3	n/a
Ohio State University Foundation	$13,000	2	0%
Orlando Health Foundation Inc	$10,500	1	0%
University of Rochester	$8,000	1	0%
Uc San Diego Foundation	$7,500	1	0%
University of Washington	$7,150	1	n/a
Huntsman Cancer Foundation	$5,750	1	0%
Rutgers University Foundation	$5,500	1	0%

Head for the Cure Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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 Cancer Society IncGA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Head for the Cure Foundation

How much does Head for the Cure Foundation give?: Head for the Cure Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $814,670 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Head for the Cure Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Head for the Cure Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nihnia ($1.6M), The Kansas University Endowment Association ($1.2M), Henry Ford Health System ($546k).
Does Head for the Cure Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Head for the Cure Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Head for the Cure Foundation based?: Head for the Cure Foundation is based in MO.