· Public charity
National Brain Tumor Society Inc
National brain tumor society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, andunites our community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments,and advocate for patients and care partners.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of National Brain Tumor Society Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year National Brain Tumor Society Inc named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $334k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $750,000 |
| GLOBAL COALITION FOR ADAPTIVE RESEARCH | $500,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $483,800 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $450,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $173,750 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA | $160,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $49,937 |
| THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC | $28,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $25,000 |
| TEMPUS LABS INC | $16,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGLOBAL COALITION FOR ADAPTIVE RESEARCH INC4× · 2018–2021 · $1.8M · revenue ×13 · 30% of their budget
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER3× · 2017–2019 · $1.4M · revenue +121%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $559k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- OIOncoceutics Incone grant, 2020 · $200k
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +39%
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COALITION FOR ADAPTIVE RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED & AFFILIATES GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Brain Tumor Society Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Brain Tumor Society Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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