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.

Head for the Cure Foundation

Head for the Cure Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$180k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $54k
$10k–50k25 grants · $467k
$50k–250k3 grants · $287k

$14,500

Median grant

States reached

$713k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION	$25,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION	$25,000
ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	$25,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION	$25,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH 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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

$6.8M · 40 repeat orgs$258k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.8M

$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+47%

Still filing today

70%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationRecreation & SportsReligionHuman 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

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The Kansas University Endowment Association
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +93%
HF
HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
8× · 2017–2024 · $546k · revenue +69%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +76%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +51%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +47%
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REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
one grant, 2022 · $30k

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.

Rush University Medical Center

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.

Health

University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health

The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health

University of Chicago Medical Center

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…

Health

University Medical Center Inc

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.

Health

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health

Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

University Health Physicians

University health physicians provides quality and compassionate healthcare in an environment of academic excellence.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medical University of South Carolina Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/41

Grantees still filing

35/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,823,450Education$2,090,250Health$1,982,500Recreation & Sports$98,100Religion$24,500Human Services$22,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Head for the Cure Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Head for the Cure Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home