· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOC | $180,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM (HERMELIN BRAIN TUMOR CENTER) | $56,750 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $45,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ALVIN J SITEMAN CANCER CENTER) | $35,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $22,500 |
| WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| TEXAS ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CANCER COMMONS | $17,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +93%
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM8× · 2017–2024 · $546k · revenue +69%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +76%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +30%- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +51%
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
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Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brain Cancer Awareness 5K Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds NEBRASKA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRAIN CANCER AWARENESS 5K LTD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE HEALTH CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Orlando Health Inc ↗
- Who funds DRAGON MASTER INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds BIKE WALK KC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Head for the Cure Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Orlando Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.