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International Lung Cancer Foundation

The INTERNATIONAL LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION aims to accelerate the pace of thoracic malignancy research, to inspire researchers to focus their careers on lung cancer, and to reduce the worldwide lung cancer mortality rate.donations from patients, caregivers, and those individuals passionate about accelerating the pace of lung cancer…

$1.4M
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$288k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Health$1.7M
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $512,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,367,599 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $855,099 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $288k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN$287,500
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$50,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$50,000
SIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTER$50,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$25,000
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 13%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 16%LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN: $325k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%SIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTER: $50k → 22%UCLA PAYMENT SOLUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE: $38k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $38k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 28%UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $38k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $25k → 13%YALE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $13k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $25k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $88k → 19%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN: $288k → 8%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $13k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $25k → 28%UT MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $24k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 13%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $88k → 19%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN: $100k → 8%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $13k → 19%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $38k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $13k → 16%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

MN
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
TN
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $850k on the FY2022 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$400k · 47% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND YOUNG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THORACIC ONCOLOGY · SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND YOUNG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THORACIC ONCOLOGY.

East Asia and the Pacific$300k · 35% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND YOUNG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THORACIC ONCOLOGY

North America (Canada and Mexico)$100k · 12% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND YOUNG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THORACIC ONCOLOGY

South America$50k · 6% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH AND YOUNG MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS IN THORACIC ONCOLOGY

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 9 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$1.4M
$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+76%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
HealthEducationOther
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

  • LC
    LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $713k · revenue +63% · 25% of their budget
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SP
    SUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $38k
  • UP
    UCLA PAYMENT SOLUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $38k
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
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
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
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
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
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
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
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
9
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
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
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
12
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yale University; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 19 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)
9/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $712,500 · HealthLUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICADana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER+1 more: $12,500 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $175,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC: $125,000 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INCTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYSIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · OtherSIDNEY KIMMEL CANCER CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUTMD ANDERSON: $49,472 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONSUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $37,500 · OtherSUNSET PARK HEALTH COUNCIL INCUCLA PAYMENT SOLUTIONS AND COMPLIANCE: $37,500 · OtherUCLA PAYMENT SOLUTIONS AND COMPLIANCEUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $12,500 · OtherYale University: $50,000 · EducationYale Unive…UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…New York University: $50,000 · EducationNew York U…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $12,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY…
Health$875,000Other$686,972Education$162,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUNG CANCER FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $712,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization International Lung Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Lung Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to International Lung Cancer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to International Lung Cancer Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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