· Public charity
Herb Kosten Pancreatic Cancer Charitable Fund
The organization seeks to aid in research for cure of pancreatic cancer.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $60,000 |
| NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $50,000 |
| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY | $50,000 |
| BAPTIST MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $345k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCES2× · 2017–2018 · $250k
- SOSCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY5× · 2020–2025 · $240k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $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.
1 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. 1 of the 6 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herb Kosten Pancreatic Cancer Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herb Kosten Pancreatic Cancer Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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