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Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
$65,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Israel Cancer Research Fund$125,028
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions$115,000
Northshore University Health System$65,000
Lustgarten Foundation$50,000
University of Chicago Medicine and Biological Science Development$30,000
Cancer Wellness Center$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $450k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $100k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $50k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $50k → 6%Lustgarten Foundation: $50k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 9 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$2.3M
$50k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $390k · revenue +42%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $350k · revenue +21%
  • IC
    ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $332k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kellogg Cancer Center
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
2
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
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
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
5
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
6
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
7
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries

Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…

Health
8
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
9
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
10
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
City of Hope National Medical Center

To make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. please see schedule o for a continuation of our mission.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $350,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL SERVICES CORPORATIONUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $225,000 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical CenterEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $190,000 · HealthEndeavor Health Clinical OperationsTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $115,000 · HealthTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITALCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $96,414 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER+1 more: $11,000 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $390,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago: $255,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANC…ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $332,497 · OtherISRAEL CANCER RES…Kellogg Cancer Center: $50,000 · OtherKellogg Cancer Ce…
Health$987,414Education$645,000Human Services$450,000Other$382,497

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 92%
  • Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation: 92% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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