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Little Warrior Foundation Inc

To fund and find a lasting cure for childhood cancer, with a specific focus on ewing sarcoma.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$263k
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 2024.

Health$1.4MEducation$55k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $795,199, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,195,199 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,400,000 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $463k
  • $250k+1 grant · $263k
$71,900
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER DFMO$262,500
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$175,000
NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM$100,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$71,900
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$61,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$55,474
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$49,325
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$20,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $175k → 7%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $61k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $175k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55k → 14%BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER: $100k → 13%NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $49k → 10%CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY: $75k → 8%CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $72k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $55k → 8%DANA-FABER CANCER INSTITUTE: $150k → 7%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER: $65k → 13%CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $38k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $33k → 8%CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY: $38k → 8%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $1.4M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.0M · 71% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS FOR RESEARCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$400k · 29% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANTS FOR RESEARCH

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 5 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.4M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+62%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

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

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

’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

  • BC
    BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $603k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $375k · revenue +20%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2022–2025 · $225k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $275k
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +62%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +34%
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
4
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

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
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
8
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
9
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
10
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
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; the most unlike its peers is Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $602,500 · HealthBEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INCTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $375,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURNMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $225,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMiami Children's Health System Inc: $100,000 · HealthMiami Children's Health System IncTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $71,900 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $61,000 · HealthCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $275,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $150,000 · OtherChildrens Cancer Therapy De…RECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $88,757 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UN…DANA-FARBER INC: $20,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $49,325 · Education
Health$1,585,400Other$533,757Education$104,325

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 budgetBEAT CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $602,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $150,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $61,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $49,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $20,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Little Warrior Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Little Warrior Foundation Inc 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 13 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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