· Public charity
Melanoma Research Foundation
The mrf is the largest independent organization devoted to melanoma.
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 14 grants below total $1,551,865 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,629,606 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $77,741 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
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $720k
- $250k+3 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $300,000 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $250,000 |
| THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY | $250,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $110,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $109,828 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $100,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $100,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH DBA THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOX CHASE CANCE | $100,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA OF BIRMINGHAM | $9,503 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $6,661 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $5,873 |
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $329k 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
- HLH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC4× · 2019–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +71%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc3× · 2019–2025 · $550k · revenue +75%
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TGThe George Washington Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +30%
- UOUniversity of Miamigraduatedone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue +66%
- TBThe Broad Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +44%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for Melanoma Research. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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.
38 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. 38 of the 45 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 H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION BREAKTHROUGH CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NCCN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
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.
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
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 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.
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% 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.