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Lung Cancer Initiative

Our mission is to advance survivorship and provide support to those affected by lung cancer through research, education, and access programs.

$397k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.9MScience & Tech$581kEducation$200k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $382,420 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $397,220 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $176k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC$112,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH$87,500
DUKE$37,500
LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION$34,000
UNC GREENSBORO$25,000
LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
ECU$12,500
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,420
KINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$10,000
CONE HEALTH$10,000
CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER$10,000
LOVELIGHTS FUND$6,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%REBUILDING TOGETHER OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 8%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER: $10k → 12%LOVELIGHTS FUND: $6k → 12%ELON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%WIND RIVER SERVICES: $10k → 13%HEALING PINES RESPITE: $10k → 13%RANDOLPH HEALTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CONE HEALTH: $10k → 16%ENFUEGO THERAPEUTICS: $25k → 20%KINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 21%LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION: $34k → 14%THE V FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%ELON UNIVERSITY: $8k → 13%DUSTY JOY FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%ENFUEGO THERAPEUTICS: $25k → 20%LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%THE V FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%UNC GREENSBORO: $25k → 16%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%NC STATE SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $30k → 8%NOVANT HEALTHINC: $10k → 10%THE MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 20%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $13k → 20%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%ECU: $13k → 20%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue +111%
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $313k · revenue +78%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $260k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • NS
    NC STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • PC
    Pitt County Memorial Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF DIVINE LOVE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
2
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
3
Presbyterian Medical Care Corp

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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4
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
5
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
6
Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
7
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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8
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
9
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
10
Novant Medical Group Inc

Our cause we create a healthier future and bring remarkable experiences to life. discover we consistently seek to innovate, courageously transform ourselves and find new ways to add value for our patients, communities and one another.…

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11
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
12
Nhrmc Home Care

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Healing Pines Respite Inc. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $1,064,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · Other+5 more — $85,000 · Other+5 moreTHE V FOUNDATION — $350,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $169,920 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INCLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthPitt County Memorial Hospital Inc — $25,000 · Health+8 more — $77,000 · Health+8 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $312,500 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH …DUKE UNIVERSITY — $260,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUND…+1 more — $18,304 · EducationPRESERVING HOME INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWILLIAMSON LOVELIGHTS FUND — $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,199,750Health$746,920Education$715,804Housing & Shelter$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $312,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $260,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $169,920 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPitt County Memorial Hospital Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $18,304 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING PINES RESPITE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Outer Banks Hospital Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOVANT HEALTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH HOSPITAL COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetKINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVING HOME INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUSTY JOY FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Duke EndowmentNorth Carolina Health…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Duke EndowmentNC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duke Endowment · North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lung Cancer Initiative funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lung Cancer Initiative?

    Find your warmest path to Lung Cancer Initiative 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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