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Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc

Founded in 1997, the HIRSHBERG FOUNDATION FOR PANCREATIC CANCer research is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing pancreatic cancer research, and providing information, resources, and support to pancreatic cancer patients and their families.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$479k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$2.8MHealth$2.6MPhilanthropy$2.0MScience & Tech$623k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $479k
$75,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION$478,708
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$150,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$150,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$137,028
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$75,000
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$75,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
MAYO CLINIC RESEARCH$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$75,000
AMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOCIATION$50,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$30,000
THE UC REGENTS$29,000
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE RESEARCH: $40k → 8%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%MAYO CLINIC RESEARCH: $75k → 9%AMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOC: $60k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA ST UNIV: $40k → 12%FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $40k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $150k → 10%UCSF FOUNDATION: $40k → 10%THE SALK INSTITUTE: $40k → 11%HEALTH RESEARCH INC - ROSWELL PARK DIVI: $40k → 14%CANCER CARE INC: $80k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $150k → 16%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $40k → 12%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $75k → 15%AMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOCIATION: $60k → 5%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA OFFICE OF SPONSORED RESEARCH: $100k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $75k → 8%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 19%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - ATTN MARY SZA: $40k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $40k → 10%GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $40k → 8%MAYO CLINIC RESEARCH: $40k → 9%AMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOCIATION: $40k → 11%UC REGENTS: $89k → 10%UCLA FOUNDATION: $370k → 14%HEALTH RESEARCH INC: $40k → 14%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $40k → 17%AMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOCIATION: $50k → 5%UCLA FOUNDATION: $331k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $305k → 14%UCLA FOUNDATION: $261k → 14%CANCER CARE INC: $50k → 17%THE UCLA FOUNDATION FOR CLINICIAN SUPPORT: $320k → 14%CANCER CARE INC: $50k → 17%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $270k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT CUMMUNITY (DELETED): $170k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $100k → 14%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $137k → 14%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SOUTH BAY: $95k → 14%UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $712k → 14%UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $479k → 14%UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $438k → 14%UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $282k → 14%UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%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

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
RI
CA
UT
MO
WV
NM
KS
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 12 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
27

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

67%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • UK
    UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +34% · 78% of their budget
  • CC
    Cancer Care Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $280k · revenue +30%
  • AP
    AMERICAN PENCREATIC ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $190k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $75k
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
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
3
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
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
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
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
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
12
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
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 Uncle Kory 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 49 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $2,493,988 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $115,000 · Education+9 more: $500,000 · Education+9 moreCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $365,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $193,925 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRA…UTMD ANDERSON: $190,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONAMERICAN PENCREATIC ASSOCIATION INC: $190,000 · OtherAMERICAN PENCREATIC ASSOCIATION …REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAAMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOC: $145,000 · OtherAMERICAN PANCREATIC ASSOCNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $80,000 · Other+19 more: $940,280 · Other+19 moreUNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $2,029,689 · PhilanthropyUNCLE KORY FOUNDATIONCancer Care Inc: $280,000 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $80,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $75,000 · HealthFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $40,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $40,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · Health+2 more: $15,000 · HealthGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $5,000 · Science & Tech
Education$3,108,988Other$2,354,205Philanthropy$2,029,689Health$595,000Science & Tech$5,000

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $2,493,988 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNCLE KORY FOUNDATION: $2,029,689 over 5y, 78% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $365,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $280,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN PENCREATIC ASSOCIATION INC: $190,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNCCN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollaborative Alliance for Pancreatic Education: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNCLE KORY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PENCREATIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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.

University of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…University of MiamiNorthwestern Universi…Johns Hopkins Univers…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
University of PittsburghPA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · University of Miami · Northwestern University · Johns Hopkins University · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Canc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
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.

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 49 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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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