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Oligo Nation

OLIGO NATION advocates and fundraises to support medical research into oligodendroglioma brain cancer.

$975k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$2.0MEducation$521kReligion$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $960k
$125,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA$225,000
UT SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN FRANCISCO$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$125,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$60,000
HUNSTMAN CANCER CENTER$8,523
PNOC FOUNDATION$6,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AZTRAZENECA US: $63k → 10%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $150k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER CENTER: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $188k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%PNOC FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%REGENTS OF UCLA: $100k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%UT SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 14%Yale University: $63k → 12%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $63k → 11%HUNSTMAN CANCER CENTER: $17k → 8%ANOVA ENTERPRISES: $10k → 14%MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM: $150k → 8%Dana Faber Cancer Institute: $20k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 7%PNOC FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $60k → 17%UT SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 14%HUNSTMAN CANCER CENTER: $9k → 8%Stanford University: $20k → 7%UT SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER: $63k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
DE
TN
NC
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 8 repeat orgs$348k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +95% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$1.8M
$348k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+33%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $313k · revenue +14%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +95%
  • HC
    HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $63k · revenue +33%
  • AU
    AZTRAZENECA US
    one grant, 2021 · $63k
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
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
2
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
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
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
9
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
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $575,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDATHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $362,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTEMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $300,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $160,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $100,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAAZTRAZENECA US: $62,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $60,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $312,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $230,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $180,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…Yale University: $62,500 · EducationYale UniversityVanderbilt University: $53,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $70,000 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $62,500 · HealthHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,696 · HealthTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Health
Other$1,630,000Education$838,000Health$170,196

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $312,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $230,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $180,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $53,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,696 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 Oligo Nation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oligo Nation. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to Oligo Nation?

Find your warmest path to Oligo Nation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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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