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Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$6.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$159M
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 20 grants below total $17,594,187, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,049,864 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $455,677 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–50k1 grant · $44k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $695k
  • $250k+13 grants · $17M
$500,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES$1,000,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$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
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$150,000
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TRUSTEE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $846k → 22%THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $1.4M → 11%STAND UP TO CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT IND FDN: $11.0M → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3.9M → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $8.8M → 19%THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 11%STAND UP TO CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT IND FDN: $8.4M → 14%Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $3.1M → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $6.4M → 19%THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 11%STAND UP TO CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT IND FDN: $7.6M → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $2.5M → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5.7M → 19%THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 11%STAND UP TP CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $6.5M → 14%Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: $2.2M → 7%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $787k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5.2M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2.8M → 16%The Salk Institute For Biological Studies: $834k → 11%STAND UP TO CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $4.3M → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $2.0M → 7%Johns Hopkins University: $4.6M → 19%BREAK THROUGH CANCER: $5.0M → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2.2M → 16%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1.6M → 22%STAND UP TP CANCER - ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 14%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1.9M → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4.4M → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.9M → 8%Dana Farber Cancer Institute: $2.0M → 16%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1.4M → 22%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1.7M → 7%Johns Hopkins University: $3.3M → 19%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $1.9M → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 16%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $991k → 22%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $1.0M → 7%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $2.2M → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.6M → 8%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $975k → 22%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.3M → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.5M → 16%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $1.2M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1.0M → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.3M → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.2M → 16%Dana Farber Cancer Institute: $875k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
TX
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97M · 18 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
6

Total granted

$97M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $386k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationScience & TechOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $41M · revenue +64%
  • CS
    COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +9%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMONWEALTH CANCER CONSORTIUM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -51%
  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
  • Vanderbilt Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +74%
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
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
2
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
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
6
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
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
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

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
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40,612,204 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $9,994,965 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyNew York University: $3,242,226 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,515,254 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,145,921 · Education+6 more: $3,551,554 · Education+6 moreENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $39,675,895 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUND…COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $18,198,261 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBO…The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $6,521,665 · Science & TechThe Salk Institut…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,337,199 · HealthDana-Farber Can…American Association for Cancer Research Inc: $5,205,000 · HealthAmerican Associ…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,377,874 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-…Children's Hospital Corporation: $1,044,295 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $1,032,236 · Health+3 more: $286,798 · HealthCOMMONWEALTH CANCER CONSORTIUM INC: $5,000,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,676,130 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $1,453,497 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $556,119 · OtherUTMD ANDERSON: $444,997 · Other+6 more: $1,293,465 · Other
Education$62,062,124Philanthropy$39,675,895Science & Tech$24,719,926Health$22,283,402Other$10,424,208

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $40,612,204 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $39,675,895 over 7y, 19% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $18,198,261 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,337,199 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $9,994,965 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $6,521,665 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $5,205,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH CANCER CONSORTIUM INC: $5,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNew York University: $3,242,226 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,515,254 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,145,921 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,487,794 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,377,874 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,273,018 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,044,295 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $1,032,236 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $260,742 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $256,528 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Pediatric Associates Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $270 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
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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 Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 33 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home