· Public charity
National Foundation For Cancer Research
To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $3,331,348 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,614,953 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $283,605 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AIM HI ACCELERATOR FUND | $870,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $352,092 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $230,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $211,120 |
| THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $152,340 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY GROSSMAN SCHOOL MED | $147,983 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $140,000 |
| HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM | $140,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHSTER | $140,000 |
| OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $120,247 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $95,296 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO | $62,257 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY | $61,088 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- GCGLOBAL COALITION FOR ADAPTIVE RESEARCH INC4× · 2018–2021 · $1.8M · revenue ×13
- TSTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2024 · $872k · revenue +88%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $660k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- TTTVARDI THERAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2018 · $500k
- TOTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -25%
- RTRASIO THEREAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2019 · $400k
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.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
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…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 55 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 AIM-HI ACCELERATOR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COALITION FOR ADAPTIVE RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds HONORHEALTH AMBULATORY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 National Foundation For Cancer Research 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation — 1% 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.
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