· Public charity
Hope Hits Harder
Raise funds for existing organizations that provide support, care and summer camp experiences to childhood cancer patients and their families
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| B I G LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES | $25,000 |
| AYA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +72%
- DCDISCOVERY CAMPS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $435k · revenue +55% · 36% of their budget
- BLBIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- PTPGA TOUR CHARITIES INCone grant, 2019 · $68k · revenue -60%
- CFCHAMPIONS FORE CHARITYone grant, 2020 · $60k
- MHMETHODIST HEALTHCARE SYSTEMone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
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.
To provide a safe, caring, and temporary home away from home for the families of children receiving essential medical services in san antonio, texas.
To supply a support system for children, young adults and their families affected by cancer beyond hospital walls through physical and financial support, event comradery, and emotional encouragement.
The mission of the sa cancer council is to provide financial resources for patient assistance services and cancer research to support the mays cancer center, home to ut health san antonio md anderson.
To raise funds for cancer research
Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.
Fund pediatric cancer research in houston, texas
The organization supports the well being of children by (a) providing temporary lodging primarily for seriously ill children and their families while receiving treatment at nearby hospitals or similar treatment facilities and (b) making…
The mission of the organization is to raise funds to support texas charities selected by the founders and officers.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated to accelerate the development of a cure for cancer by conducting whole genome sequencing.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
- Who funds CHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BIG LOVE CANCER CARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds REY FEO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds MAGIK CHILDRENS THEATRE OF SAN ANTONIO DBA THE MAGIK THEATRE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hope Hits Harder funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hope Hits Harder. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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