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Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund

Hope & heroes funds the life-saving work on childhood cancer and blood disorders at institutions throughout the tri-state region- including cutting edge research, support for families and patient well-being, and collaborative research initiatives, which aim to put an end to childhood cancer.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2019
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89% of Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
0
’18
1
’19
0
’20
0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
6
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2025
$2.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,130,240
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$13M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$27M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Montefiore Medical Center$50,0001n/a
Northwell Health Foundation$50,0001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$50,00010%
New York University School of Medicine$50,0001n/a
Rutgers the State University$50,0001n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$50,0001n/a
The Valerie Fund$26,0001n/a

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About Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund

How much does Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund give?
Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund reported 8 itemized grants totaling $2,456,240, out of $2,794,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Montefiore Medical Center ($50k), Northwell Health Foundation ($50k), American Cancer Society Inc ($50k).
Where is Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund based?
Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund is based in NY.

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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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