How much does Melanoma Research Foundation give?

Melanoma Research Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $1,551,865, out of $1,629,606 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Melanoma Research Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).

Who are Melanoma Research Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc ($1.0M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($550k), The George Washington University ($500k).

Does Melanoma Research Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Melanoma Research Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, The George Washington University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Where is Melanoma Research Foundation based?

Melanoma Research Foundation is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Melanoma Research Foundation

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$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 50%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.6M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 7 to 11; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 8
Total assets, FY2025: $8.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Melanoma Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $710k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	13	$1.3M	38%
FY2024	8	$1.8M	50%
FY2023	11	$1.6M	45%
FY2021	11	$1.2M	82%
FY2020	10	$1.3M	60%
FY2019	8	$1.1M	88%
FY2017	7	$1.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$10M

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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$1,000,000	4	0%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$550,000	3	0%
The George Washington University	$500,000	1	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$500,000	4	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$455,873	3	0%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology	$450,000	3	0%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$450,000	4	0%
The Ohio State University	$410,000	2	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$400,000	2	n/a
Duke University	$400,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Melanoma Research Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$1,000,000	4	0%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$550,000	3	0%
The George Washington University	$500,000	1	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$500,000	4	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$455,873	3	0%
The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology	$450,000	3	0%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	$450,000	4	0%
The Ohio State University	$410,000	2	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$400,000	2	n/a
Duke University	$400,000	2	0%
The Institute For Cancer Research	$300,000	2	0%
Thomas Jefferson University	$300,000	2	0%
University of Miami	$300,000	1	0%
Melanoma Research Foundation Breakthrough Consortium Inc	$290,311	3	94%
The Broad Institute Inc	$250,000	1	0%
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute	$206,661	2	0%
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research	$200,000	1	0%
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center	$200,000	1	0%
Utmd Anderson	$200,000	3	n/a
University of Toledo	$200,000	1	n/a
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	$199,002	1	0%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$175,000	2	n/a
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	$150,000	1	0%
The Rockefeller University	$150,000	1	0%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$150,000	1	n/a
New York University	$109,828	1	n/a
Pennsylvania State University	$100,000	1	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University	$100,000	1	n/a
Albert Einstein College of Medicine	$100,000	1	0%
Emory University	$100,000	1	n/a
Case Western Reserve University	$100,000	1	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$100,000	1	n/a
University of Utah	$100,000	1	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$65,000	1	n/a
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Foundation Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Society of Melanoma Research	$20,000	2	n/a
Society for Melanoma Research	$10,000	1	7%
West Virginia University Research Corporation	$10,000	1	0%
Nccn Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Philadelphia University	$10,000	1	0%
University of Alabama at Birmingham	$9,503	1	n/a

Melanoma Research Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

American Cancer Society IncGA19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · The George Washington University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · The V Foundation · Mayo Clinic · American Heart Association Inc · Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · The Scripps Research Institute · Georgetown University · Washington University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

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.

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About Melanoma Research Foundation

How much does Melanoma Research Foundation give?: Melanoma Research Foundation reported 14 itemized grants totaling $1,551,865, out of $1,629,606 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Melanoma Research Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are Melanoma Research Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc ($1.0M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($550k), The George Washington University ($500k).
Does Melanoma Research Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Melanoma Research Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Cancer Society Inc, The George Washington University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Where is Melanoma Research Foundation based?: Melanoma Research Foundation is based in DC.