· Public charity
JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation
To raise cancer awareness and to raise funds for cancer research and treatment
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Brent Eley Foundation | $39,000 |
| Cancer League of Colorado | $39,000 |
| Ray of Hope Cancer Foundation | $33,000 |
| Children's Hospital | $33,000 |
| Colorado Ovarian Cancer Alliance | $13,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC8× · 2017–2025 · $328k · revenue +6%
- RORAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $251k · revenue +14%
- CCCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -18%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +40%
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.
Cancer League of Colorado Foundation periodically provides funds to Cancer League of Colorado, a related 501(c)(3) entity, which through its committees and advisory boards allocates funds in support of cancer research and cancer patient…
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Cancer education, prevention, and patient navigation
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Curebound's mission is to accelerate cancer research and save lives. we raise and invest strategic funding for innovative adult and pediatric cancer research with one vision: cures in our lifetime.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds RAY OF HOPE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CANCER CENTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Colorado Gynecologic Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from JoAnn B Ficke Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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