Washington, D.C. · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $12M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $255,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,155,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $9.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $5.8M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $6.9M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $5.7M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $8.3M | 37% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $6.7M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $11M | 55% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $7.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents Univ of California | $6,147,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $4,790,000 | 7 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $4,260,000 | 8 | n/a |
| New York University | $4,103,263 | 6 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $4,048,195 | 7 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $3,931,985 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $3,775,000 | 5 | 0% |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc | $3,101,320 | 5 | 1% |
| Utmd Anderson | $2,524,459 | 7 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $2,050,000 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regents Univ of California | $6,147,500 | 8 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $4,790,000 | 7 | n/a |
| University of California San Francisco | $4,260,000 | 8 | n/a |
| New York University | $4,103,263 | 6 | 0% |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | $4,048,195 | 7 | 0% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $3,931,985 | 6 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $3,775,000 | 5 | 0% |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc | $3,101,320 | 5 | 1% |
| Utmd Anderson | $2,524,459 | 7 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $2,050,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Rockefeller University | $1,805,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $1,654,159 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $1,075,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $1,075,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $825,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $745,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Cente | $720,369 | 2 | n/a |
| Pennsylvania State University | $675,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Northwestern University | $660,027 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | $600,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Emory University | $580,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | $555,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $545,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Oregon Health & Science University | $521,709 | 4 | n/a |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $510,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $475,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Institute For Cancer Research | $455,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Maryland College Park | $450,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Houston | $450,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Louis University | $375,000 | 1 | 0% |
| State University of Iowa | $375,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wayne State University | $374,862 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Minnesota | $325,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology | $325,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $290,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $255,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $255,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Drexel University | $255,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $254,862 | 1 | 0% |
| Duke University | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Washington University | $237,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado State University | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albany Med Health System | $225,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $225,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Utah | $170,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary | $149,999 | 1 | n/a |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $112,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Henry Ford Health System | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| University of Miami | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mayo Clinic | $70,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | $19,412 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation with peer funders
About Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation
- How much does Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation give?
- Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation reported 29 itemized grants totaling $11,922,010, out of $13,359,283 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (55%), Science & Tech (39%), Education (6%).
- Who are Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents Univ of California ($6.1M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($4.8M), University of California San Francisco ($4.3M).
- Does Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mayo Clinic, American Cancer Society Inc, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
- Where is Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation based?
- Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation is based in DC.
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