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Kay Yow Cancer Foundation Inc

The mission of kay yow cancer fund is to be a part of finding an answer in the fight against all cancers affecting women; through raising money for scientific research, assisting the underserved, and unifying people for a common cause.

$750k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$4.6MHuman Services$125k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER$150,000
THE V FOUNDATION$100,000
SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL YALE$50,000
ST JOSEPH'SCANDLER FOUNDATIONS$50,000
ST LUKE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$50,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$50,000
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER$50,000
EQUAL HOPE$50,000
HAMPTON ROADS CANCER CTR FOUNDATION$25,000
UVA COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$25,000
TALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE$25,000
VCU MASSEY CANCER CENTER$25,000
MULTICARE INLAND NW FOUNDATION$25,000
CEDARS-SINAI ADVANCEMENT$25,000
CARILION CLINIC FOUNDATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 14%UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
NY
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 4 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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

  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +111%
  • TR
    THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $350k · revenue -13%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $275k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -81%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • SC
    STEPHENSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $150k
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
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
2
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
3
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
4
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
5
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
6
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
7
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
8
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
9
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health
10
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carilion Clinic Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sisters Network. 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

22 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. 22 of the 29 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE V FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthCarle Development Foundation: $150,000 · HealthMOUNT NITTANY HEALTH SYSTEM: $150,000 · Health+12 more: $525,000 · Health+12 moreTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · OtherTHE REX HEALTHCARE …STEPHENSON CANCER CENTER: $150,000 · OtherSTEPHENSON CANCER C…MASONIC CANCER CENTER FUND INC: $100,000 · OtherMASONIC CANCER CENT…HOWARD UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · OtherHOWARD UNIVERSITY C…SMILOW CANCER HOSPITAL YALE: $50,000 · OtherSMILOW CANCER HOSPI…MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN CANCER INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherMEDSTAR GEORGETOWN …+3 more: $75,000 · Other+3 moreUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · EducationTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Human Services
Health$3,525,000Other$825,000Education$275,000Human Services$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarle Development Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOUNT NITTANY HEALTH SYSTEM: $150,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT BARNABAS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEqual Hope: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERS NETWORK: $50,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetCANDLER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetST LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM PA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVICENT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEVADA HEALTH CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarilion Clinic Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTALLAHASSEE MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 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.

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.

American Cancer Socie…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Cancer Society IncGA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 29 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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