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Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$801k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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$8.6MScience & Tech$4.2MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$373kYouth Development$150kRecreation & Sports$11k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$29,890
Median grant
14
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$800,620
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE ITALIAN LEGIONS OF MERIT$320,000
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$231,130
UCLA$199,105
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$176,000
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$162,810
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$150,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$150,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$150,000
THE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC$36,295
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$29,890
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$29,890
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,620
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA$21,350
UNIVERSITY Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA$21,350
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $300k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $180k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $150k → 9%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIES: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $150k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150k → 22%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $150k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $150k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $150k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO: $180k → 16%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $504k → 16%MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $150k → 15%THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $269k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $150k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $150k → 8%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 18%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NJ: $150k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $150k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $180k → 16%WEIL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $300k → 16%ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $231k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $150k → 8%LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $269k → 14%UCLA: $199k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $163k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $150k → 8%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $150k → 9%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $150k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE ITALIAN LEGIONS OF MERIT: $320k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $150k → 9%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $801k → 16%CITY OF HOPE: $150k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $180k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $150k → 9%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUE: $300k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $176k → 17%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $176k → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUE: $150k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $150k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $250k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $300k → 17%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $161k → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.5M · 19 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
26

Total granted

$8.5M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+27%

Still filing today

53%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $969k 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +132%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +121%
  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    4× · 2017–2021 · $525k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2023 · $269k
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
    one grant, 2023 · $269k · revenue +7%
  • TU
    THE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA
    one grant, 2021 · $180k

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
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
2
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
3
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
4
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
5
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
6
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is American Society of the Italian Legions of Merit. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%55%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%58%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
3/63
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,502

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 63 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
31/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UTMD ANDERSON — $1,254,106 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,036,295 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $524,580 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $299,933 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $269,222 · Other+16 more — $1,302,040 · Other+16 moreYale University — $739,647 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $600,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STA…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $462,810 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN …ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $449,937 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIVanderbilt University — $299,510 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $268,973 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION — $239,670 · EducationALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $231,130 · Education+16 more — $1,919,431 · Education+16 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,621,295 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute …MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,316,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANC…Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $450,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical…CITY OF HOPE — $150,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $150,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $150,000 · Health+7 more — $104,615 · HealthAmerican Society of the Italian Legions of Merit — $320,000 · Arts & CultureNorthwestern University — $10,675 · Recreation & Sports
Other$5,586,176Education$5,211,108Health$3,941,910Arts & Culture$320,000Recreation & Sports$10,675

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,621,295 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $1,316,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $739,647 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $524,580 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $462,810 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $449,937 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $299,510 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $268,973 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $239,670 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $231,130 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $169,215 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $149,948 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $149,923 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $42,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $29,890 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC — $25,620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - OREGON — $21,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic — $19,215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $17,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $10,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartford HealthCare Corporation — $10,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $10,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $6,405 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Cancer Socie…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
American Cancer Society IncGA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Research Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% 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
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.

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 63 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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