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Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation's mission is to serve as a catalyst for the early diagnosis and ultimate cure of pancreatic cancer.

$395k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$65,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$125,028
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$395k17%
FY20242$158k0%
FY20235$289k20%
FY20224$295k25%
FY20214$250k0%
FY20202$150k100%
FY20196$415k0%
FY20186$513kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.8MEducation$225k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$450,00060%
Johns Hopkins University$390,00040%
Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation$350,00020%
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc$332,49732%
University of Chicago$255,00040%
University of Chicago Medical Center$225,00020%
Endeavor Health Clinical Operations$190,00030%
The Johns Hopkins Hospital$115,00010%
Cancer Wellness Center$96,41471%
Wellness House$11,00020%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $450,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $390,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation: $350,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund Inc: $332,497 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $255,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $190,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Johns Hopkins Hospital: $115,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Wellness Center: $96,414 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetWellness House: $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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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 10.

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About Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

How much does Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation give?
Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $395,028 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (89%), Education (11%).
Who are Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation ($450k), Johns Hopkins University ($390k), Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation ($350k).
Does Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation based?
Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation is based in IL.

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 11 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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