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Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc

Vision A world without childhood brain tumors.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$748k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$7.1MScience & Tech$1.4MEducation$644kPhilanthropy$175kEmployment$150k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $1,333,944 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,880,872 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $546,928 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $501k
  • $250k+1 grant · $748k
$100,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$747,855
Regents of the University of Michigan$125,000
The Washington University$124,480
TippingPoint Biosciences Inc$100,000
SonALAsense Inc$100,000
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$51,856
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$44,753
Society for Neuro-Oncology$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UPSTATE GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $8k → 14%UPSTATE GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSP: $7k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 40 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
37

Total granted

$7.7M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+25%

Still filing today

73%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +132%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $502k · revenue +59%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $473k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2017 · $296k
  • Public Health Institute
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -13%
  • ET
    E&K TRITES TR FBO ST JUDE HOSP XXX-XX-XXXXgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $175k · revenue +161%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
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
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
6
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
7
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
8
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
11
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
12
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is E&K Trites Tr Fbo St Jude Hosp Xxx-Xx-Xxxx. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%67%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/78
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,487

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.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 81 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/61
Grantees still filing
46/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,218,619 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $501,856 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $319,753 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $294,931 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $262,500 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INCCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $236,457 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INCSYDNEY'S INCREDIBLE DEFEAT OF EWING'S SARCOMA INC — $222,633 · HealthPublic Health Institute — $200,000 · HealthAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc — $156,000 · HealthNationwide Children's Hospital Inc — $149,408 · Health+29 more — $818,886 · Health+29 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $926,508 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — $780,801 · OtherDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $295,833 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $250,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $200,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE+21 more — $704,941 · Other+21 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY — $472,924 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $242,559 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIV…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $183,179 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUN…GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $132,735 · EducationGEORGIA STATE U…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $68,255 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNI…+4 more — $56,996 · EducationE&K TRITES TR FBO ST JUDE HOSP XXX-XX-XXXX — $175,000 · PhilanthropyRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $26,211 · PhilanthropyUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $16,671 · PhilanthropySociety for Neuro-Oncology — $88,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $15,089 · Human Services
Health$4,381,043Other$3,458,083Education$1,256,648Philanthropy$217,882Arts & Culture$88,000Human Services$15,089

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,218,619 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $501,856 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $472,924 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $319,753 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $294,931 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $262,500 over 2y, 28% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $242,559 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $236,457 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSYDNEY'S INCREDIBLE DEFEAT OF EWING'S SARCOMA INC — $222,633 over 4y, 75% of budgetPublic Health Institute — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $183,179 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc — $156,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc — $149,408 over 2y, 22% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $132,735 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $97,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety for Neuro-Oncology — $88,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $73,504 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC — $73,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES — $69,363 over 2y, 31% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $68,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budget1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATION — $54,239 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — $43,222 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANC HEALTHCARE INC — $38,052 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER — $37,048 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC — $36,759 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $32,203 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $32,138 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $30,013 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $29,808 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $26,211 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,211 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER — $18,569 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation — $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC — $15,089 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOSF Healthcare System — $13,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHASBRO FOUNDATION INC — $10,192 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNoahBRAVE Foundation — $10,072 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $9,785 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Children's Hospit…The Foundation for Su…Child's PlayCystic Fibrosis Found…Public Health Institu…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Reach Out and Read IncThe Pfizer Foundation…AbbVie FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Children's Hospital of PhiladelphiaPA19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships · Child's Play · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · Public Health Institute · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Reach Out and Read Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Baystate Medical Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
6report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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