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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.

$388k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$137k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MScience & Tech$581kEducation$200k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $378,066, the rows itemized in this filing. The $388,066 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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–50k5 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $287k
$37,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE$137,314
UNC$100,000
LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION$50,000
ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST$37,500
ECU$20,832
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION$12,420
FORSYTHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
WHITE RIBBON PROJECT$10,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REBUILDING TOGETHER OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 8%ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST: $38k → 9%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%FORSYTHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%CONE HEALTH: $10k → 16%ENFUEGO THERAPEUTICS: $25k → 20%KINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 21%WHITE RIBBON PROJECT: $10k → 8%LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION: $50k → 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: $34k → 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%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%THE MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 16%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 20%LUNGEVITY FOUNDATION: $33k → 14%NOVANT HEALTH PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%NOVANT HEALTHINC: $10k → 10%EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $25k → 20%ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%ECU: $21k → 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
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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 9 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

$2.8M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+5%

Still filing today

78%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $397k · revenue +41%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue +111%
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • NS
    NC STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • LC
    LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
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
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
East Carolina Health

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

Health
5
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

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

Health
6
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
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…

—
8
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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9
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
10
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
11
New Hanover Regional Medical Center Foundation 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
12
Community General Hospital Foundation 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The White Ribbon Project 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

23 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. 23 of the 28 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,164,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · Other+5 more: $85,000 · Other+5 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $397,314 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $350,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCI…EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,832 · EducationEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI…+1 more: $18,304 · EducationTHE V FOUNDATION: $350,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $182,340 · HealthATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATIONLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC+12 more: $147,000 · Health+12 morePRESERVING HOME INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterWILLIAMSON LOVELIGHTS FUND: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,299,750Education$911,450Health$829,340Housing & Shelter$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $397,314 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $350,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $182,340 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,832 over 7y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE WHITE RIBBON PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING PINES RESPITE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPRESERVING HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 budgetNOVANT HEALTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Outer Banks Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDUSTY JOY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

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

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 Lung Cancer Initiative funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lung Cancer Initiative. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 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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