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Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation

To end suffering and death due to melanoma by collaborating with all stakeholders to accelerate powerful research, advance cures for all patients, and prevent more melanomas.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.2M
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$39MScience & Tech$27MEducation$4.0MEmployment$149kRecreation & Sports$100k
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $11,922,010 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,359,283 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,437,273 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+16 grants · $11M
$255,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER$1,155,000
H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$1,155,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (MSK)$1,088,210
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL (MASS GENERAL)$1,025,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$1,000,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$975,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$900,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$900,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$627,500
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$264,999
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$255,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$255,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$255,000
DREXEL UNIVERSITY$255,000
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER$255,000
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $855k → 16%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $450k → 12%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $900k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $725k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1.2M → 13%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1.8M → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 19%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $495k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $600k → 16%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANDFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $835k → 7%THE REGENTS OF UCLA: $1.1M → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $920k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $600k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 13%YALE UNIVERSITY: $600k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $900k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - KOCH INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATIVE CANC: $450k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $1.1M → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $900k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $450k → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $750k → 19%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $970k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $800k → 17%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $443k → 19%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $600k → 8%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $910k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $675k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $900k → 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.4M → 16%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $628k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $1.2M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE: $450k → 19%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1.2M → 16%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $975k → 16%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $975k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $520k → 14%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL (MASS GENERAL): $1.0M → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER (MSK): $1.1M → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $700k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $970k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $975k → 16%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $900k → 17%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $600k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $670k → 17%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $823k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETERING CANCER CENTER: $555k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $900k → 17%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
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Grants abroad, by region — $1.4M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Middle East and North Africa$1.1M · 73% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD · TEAM SCIENCE AWARD

East Asia and the Pacific$150k · 10% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: DERMATOLOGY CAREER DEVELOPMENT AWARD

North America (Canada and Mexico)$135k · 9% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: NEXT STEPS: ADVANCING DRUG DISCOVERY TO IDENTIFY NEW THERAPIES

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$97k · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: NEXT STEPS: ADVANCING DRUG DISCOVERY TO IDENTIFY NEW THERAPIES

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.
$55M · 36 repeat orgs$5.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
22

Total granted

$55M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+18%

Still filing today

53%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & 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

  • NY
    New York University
    6× · 2018–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +59%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +121%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK
    one grant, 2018 · $450k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue +9%
  • SU
    State University of Iowa
    one grant, 2023 · $375k

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
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
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
9
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
10
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
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell 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 65 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%67%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr16%60%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/72
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,493

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

46 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. 46 of the 72 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
41/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $6,147,500 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $4,790,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $4,260,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUTMD ANDERSON — $2,524,459 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $2,050,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $1,075,000 · Other+23 more — $8,396,940 · Other+23 moreNew York University — $4,103,263 · EducationNew York UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $3,931,985 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYYale University — $3,825,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,874,647 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFO…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $1,805,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $1,654,159 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAITHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,505,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,125,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,075,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $975,000 · Education+14 more — $4,541,412 · Education+14 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $4,048,195 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERI…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $3,775,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Ins…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $3,101,320 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER C…Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $510,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $475,000 · Health+11 more — $1,997,361 · Health+11 moreNorthwestern University — $660,027 · Recreation & SportsThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $225,000 · Science & TechCORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC — $50,000 · Science & Tech
Other$29,243,899Education$26,415,466Health$13,906,876Recreation & Sports$660,027Science & Tech$275,000

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 budgetNew York University — $4,103,263 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $4,048,195 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $3,931,985 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $3,825,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $3,775,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $3,101,320 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,874,647 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $1,805,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $1,654,159 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,505,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,075,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $975,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $825,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $675,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $660,027 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $580,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $545,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $510,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $475,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research — $455,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $375,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $325,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $255,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $255,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $254,862 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $237,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $225,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $112,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORIELL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $19,412 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.

  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Mayo ClinicAmerican Cancer Socie…The Trustees of Colum…The V FoundationAmerican Lung Associa…Alzheimer's Disease &…Vanderbilt University…Northwestern Universi…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Mayo ClinicMN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mayo Clinic · American Cancer Society Inc · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The V Foundation · American Lung Association · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Northwestern University · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Melanoma Research Alliance 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% 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
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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 72 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.

Source object · view filing

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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines