· 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 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 · 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 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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
How this is measured
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 +162%
Funded once
- TOTHE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +45%
- TTTVARDI THERAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2018 · $500k
- RTRASIO THEREAPEUTICS INCone grant, 2019 · $400k
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.
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…
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…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
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…
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…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 48 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 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 MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization National Foundation For Cancer Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Foundation For Cancer Research. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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