Illinois · Public charity
Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund
Funding cancer research organizations
- $418k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $400k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $213k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $400k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $400k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $450k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $350k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $631k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | $2,125,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Gilda's Club Chicago | $345,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pickles Group Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
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About Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund
- How much does Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund give?
- Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund reported 3 itemized grants totaling $400,000, out of $417,987 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
- Who are Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwestern Memorial Healthcare ($2.1M), Gilda's Club Chicago ($346k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ($60k).
- Does Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund based?
- Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund is based in IL.
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