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Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc

Vision A world without childhood brain tumors.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$325k
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$7.1MScience & Tech$1.4MEducation$644kPhilanthropy$175kEmployment$150k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $791,177, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,157,997 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $366,820 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $446k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$60,013
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$325,000
Regents of the University of Michigan$125,664
Health Research Alliance Inc$100,000
Society for Neuro-Oncology$100,000
Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States$60,013
American Association for Cancer Research Foundation$60,000
Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers Inc$10,000
Tough2gether Foundation$5,500
Richi Childhood Cancer Foundation$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Richi Childhood Cancer Foundation: $5k → 8%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
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
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
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.
$8.4M · 40 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
39

Total granted

$8.4M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+30%

Still filing today

73%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +162%
  • 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%
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
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
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

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
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
5
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
6
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
7
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
8
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
9
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
10
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
11
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; 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.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 85 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,543,619 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $501,856 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $362,500 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE 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 PHILADELPHIACHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $236,457 · HealthSYDNEY'S INCREDIBLE DEFEAT OF EWING'S SARCOMA INC: $222,633 · HealthPublic Health Institute: $200,000 · Health+33 more: $1,189,794 · Health+33 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1,052,172 · 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 MEDICINECENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES: $129,376 · Other+21 more: $645,578 · Other+21 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $472,924 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSI…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $242,559 · EducationWASHINGTON UN…UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $183,179 · EducationUNC HEALTH FO…GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $132,735 · EducationGEORGIA STATE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $68,255 · EducationWAKE FOREST U…+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: $188,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC: $15,089 · Human ServicesRICHI CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Health$4,871,543Other$3,653,760Education$1,256,648Philanthropy$217,882Arts & Culture$188,000Human Services$20,089

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,543,619 over 4y, 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 budgetHEALTH RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $362,500 over 3y, 28% 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 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 budgetSociety for Neuro-Oncology: $188,000 over 4y, 1.4% 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 budgetCENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES: $129,376 over 3y, 31% 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 budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $73,504 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC: $73,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $68,255 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Foundation: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $16,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $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 budgetASSOCIATION OF PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY SOCIAL WORKERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 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.

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.

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

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 Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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 85 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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