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Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc

Our mission is to take bold action to improve the lives of everyone impacted by pancreatic cancer by advancing scientific research, building community, sharing knowledge, and advocating for patients.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$218k
Largest
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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 2025.

Health$27MScience & Tech$5.1MEducation$4.2MRecreation & Sports$100k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$217,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center$217,500
02The need
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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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VERASTEM ONCOLOGY: $4.3M → 7%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $250k → 8%THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $300k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $450k → 9%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES: $500k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $250k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $500k → 10%SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $500k → 11%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $500k → 14%STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $500k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $500k → 17%CLINICAL DATA INTERCHANGE STANDARDS CONSORTIUM INC: $402k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $750k → 16%MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $250k → 12%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $500k → 14%LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $250k → 15%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $275k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $300k → 11%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 12%GENECENTRIC THERAPEUTICS INC: $300k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $340k → 13%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 19%RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY: $500k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $250k → 19%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $500k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITI: $250k → 11%FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER: $350k → 22%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $500k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $500k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $400k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $565k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $500k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $300k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANNIA: $550k → 22%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $600k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1.0M → 9%THE DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $300k → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $500k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $500k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON RESEARCH CENTER: $500k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $467k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $500k → 17%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP: $373k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $500k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $500k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $500k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $300k → 17%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
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
NC
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DC
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 24 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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23

Total granted

$22M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+29%

Still filing today

50%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsScience & TechOther
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

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +27%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +123%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • VO
    VERASTEM ONCOLOGY
    one grant, 2022 · $4.3M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2019 · $620k
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $600k · revenue +121%
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.

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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
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
3
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
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
5
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
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
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
8
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
9
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
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
12
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; the most unlike its peers is Ecog Research & Education Foundation 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

31 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. 31 of the 50 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)
30/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERASTEM ONCOLOGY: $4,300,000 · OtherVERASTEM ONCOLOGYFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $3,289,500 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERUTMD ANDERSON: $2,365,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $1,250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $950,000 · OtherRutgers the State University: $750,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $635,000 · Other+15 more: $5,445,005 · Other+15 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,477,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA U…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,450,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYNew York University: $740,000 · EducationNew York UniversityUniversity of Chicago: $670,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $540,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $500,000 · EducationThe Research Foundation fo…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $385,000 · Education+5 more: $839,979 · Education+5 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,959,549 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institu…CITY OF HOPE: $1,200,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPEHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $875,000 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH INCSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $750,000 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MED…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $615,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTE…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $600,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING C…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $450,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTE…MAYO CLINIC: $450,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICCLINICAL DATA INTERCHANGE STANDARDS CONSORTIUM INC: $402,000 · HealthThe Institute For Cancer Research: $350,000 · Health+3 more: $690,000 · Health+3 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $200,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$18,984,505Education$8,601,979Health$8,341,549Science & Tech$200,000Recreation & Sports$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $3,289,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2,477,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,959,549 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,450,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $1,200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $875,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $750,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNew York University: $740,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $670,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $615,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $600,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $540,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $450,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLINICAL DATA INTERCHANGE STANDARDS CONSORTIUM INC: $402,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $385,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $350,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $240,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $190,416 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwestern University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $99,979 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $40,000 over 1y, 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 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CLINICAL DATA INTERCHANGE STANDARDS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Institute For Cancer Research ↗
  • Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗

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.

Mayo ClinicCornell UniversityAmerican Cancer Socie…Yale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…Johns Hopkins Univers…Nccn FoundationNational Comprehensiv…The V FoundationThe Ovarian Cancer Re…American Lung Associa…Thomas Jefferson Univ…
Mayo ClinicMN19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mayo Clinic · Cornell University · American Cancer Society Inc · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Nccn Foundation · National Comprehensive Cancer Network · The V Foundation · The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc · American Lung Association · Thomas Jefferson University

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 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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 8%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home