Rhode Island · Public charity
Hope Funds for Cancer Research
To encourage and finance research of innovative cancer treatment and detection for the most difficult-to-treat and understudied cancers.
- $659k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $395k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $57,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Hope Funds for Cancer Research funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $297k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $293k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $433k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $321k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $434k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $456k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco | $344,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $283,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $277,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $275,199 | 4 | 0% |
| The Rockefeller University | $222,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $181,250 | 4 | 0% |
| New York Genome Center Inc | $127,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $118,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of California San Francisco | $344,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $283,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $277,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $275,199 | 4 | 0% |
| The Rockefeller University | $222,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $181,250 | 4 | 0% |
| New York Genome Center Inc | $127,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $118,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Scripps Research Institute | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yale HFCR-22-03-04 | $60,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $55,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $6,418 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hope Funds for Cancer Research supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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About Hope Funds for Cancer Research
- How much does Hope Funds for Cancer Research give?
- Hope Funds for Cancer Research reported 7 itemized grants totaling $394,900, out of $659,248 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hope Funds for Cancer Research fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), Education (37%), Science & Tech (16%).
- Who are Hope Funds for Cancer Research's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of California San Francisco ($344k), Regents of the University of California at San Diego ($284k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($278k).
- Does Hope Funds for Cancer Research fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Hope Funds for Cancer Research based?
- Hope Funds for Cancer Research is based in RI.
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