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Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $17,594,187 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $18,049,864 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $455,677 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $695k
- $250k+13 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $6,410,909 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $1,937,943 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $1,593,497 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $1,456,615 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,000,000 |
| THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES | $1,000,000 |
| NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $716,827 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $605,443 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $573,736 |
| THE TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CENTER | $369,998 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION | $360,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY | $330,642 |
| MASSACHUSETTES GENERAL HOSPITAL | $175,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $150,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $41M · revenue +64%- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY8× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +9%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +132%
Funded once
- CCCOMMONWEALTH CANCER CONSORTIUM INCone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -51%
Vanderbilt Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +74%- WMWeill Medical College of Cornell Universone grant, 2017 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
24 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. 24 of the 33 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds American Association for Cancer Research Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH CANCER CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Pediatric Associates Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
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.