· Private foundation
Lexington Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICIN | $1,400 |
| ESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $1,400 |
| AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,400 |
| THE MAGNOLIA TREE FOUNDATION | $950 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $950 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $950 |
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 (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +116% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABAMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +180%
- ECESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +137%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- FSFamily Shelter Service Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250 · revenue +55%
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.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
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.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
Ican's mission is two-fold: to optimize stage iv cancer patient survival and work to attain the highest possible quality of life. ican assists stage iv cancer patients with 1) direct patient navigation and customized advocacy services; 2)…
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,…
Please see schedule o
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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 12 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 AMERICAN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ESOPHAGEAL CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE PADS INC ↗
- Who funds Family Shelter Service Inc ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lexington Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lexington Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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