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Nccn Foundation

Through philanthropy, the NCCN FOUNDATION empowers people through knowledge and advances the mission of nccn to define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

$856k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$150k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.1MScience & Tech$1.5MEducation$538k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $59k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$150,000
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$100,000
INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$99,905
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$50,000
REGENTS OF UNIV CALIFORNIA SF$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$50,000
THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY IF WISCONSIN SYSTEM$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER$50,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$50,000
BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE CITY OF HOPE$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$44,665
HEALTH RESEARCH INC$14,250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $100k → 7%FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 22%REGENTS OF UNIV CALIFORNIA SF: $50k → 10%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $98k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $100k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50k → 21%THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY IF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $50k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $100k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $50k → 8%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $100k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $50k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERISTY: $50k → 19%MAYO CLINIC: $50k → 9%THE TRUSTEES OF THE U OF PENN: $125k → 22%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $50k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY IF WISCONSIN SYSTEM: $50k → 10%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $71k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $50k → 8%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 9%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM: $50k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERISTY: $50k → 19%THE TRUSTEES OF THE U OF PENN: $96k → 22%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $50k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $50k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $50k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $50k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $49k → 8%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER: $50k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERISTY: $50k → 19%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $50k → 16%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $49k → 17%CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
TN
NC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 17 repeat orgs$564k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

$2.8M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-33%

Still filing today

47%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $314k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $270k · revenue +145%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +38%
  • HL
    H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $150k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • BO
    BOARD OF REGENTS OF UNIV OF WISCONSIN SYSTEM
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k
  • CITY OF HOPE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue -33%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    2× · 2017–2018 · $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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
4
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
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
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
8
Drexel University

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…

Education
9
University of Southern California

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…

Education
10
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
11
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
12
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Research Foundation. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTMD ANDERSON: $248,352 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $244,858 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $149,139 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $147,624 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $144,665 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $99,785 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL C…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $97,360 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON+5 more: $250,000 · Other+5 moreBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $300,000 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE C…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $270,377 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITA…THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $200,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RES…MAYO CLINIC: $150,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICThe Institute For Cancer Research: $100,000 · HealthThe Institute For Cancer ResearchCITY OF HOPE: $50,000 · HealthFox Chase Cancer Center Foundation: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $14,250 · HealthTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $248,580 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $246,182 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYVanderbilt University: $100,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityYale University: $100,000 · EducationYale UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $97,138 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationNorthwestern University: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,681,783Health$1,284,627Education$1,041,900Recreation & Sports$100,000

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 budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $300,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $270,377 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $248,580 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $246,182 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $147,624 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $97,138 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $14,250 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH 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.

National Comprehensiv…Mayo ClinicAmerican Cancer Socie…Vanderbilt University…Cornell UniversityNorthwestern Universi…Johns Hopkins Univers…Pancreatic Cancer Act…Conquer Cancer Founda…The Breast Cancer Res…American Lung Associa…Fred Hutchinson Cance…
National Comprehensive Cancer NetworkPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Comprehensive Cancer Network · Mayo Clinic · American Cancer Society Inc · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cornell University · Northwestern University · Johns Hopkins University · Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc · Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc · American Lung Association · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nccn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nccn 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 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale 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)
0rely 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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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