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Pediatric Cancer Foundation

PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION is a nonprofit charitable organization that raises funds for groundbreaking research and early phase clinical trials to eradicate childhood cancer.

$899k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$200k
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 2025.

Health$6.5MScience & Tech$1.7M
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $809k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL$125,000
NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$109,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$100,000
THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$75,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$45,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE$25,000
FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RE$20,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1.1M → 22%WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL: $100k → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $113k → 17%MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $150k → 28%NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSP OHIO ST U: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE: $50k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500k → 22%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $112k → 17%NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSP OHIO ST U: $50k → 15%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 19%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 9%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $109k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS: $50k → 19%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $150k → 9%NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $109k → 17%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $150k → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $108k → 17%MARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $150k → 9%HASSENFELD CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $106k → 17%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $120k → 9%HASSENFELD CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $104k → 17%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $120k → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $103k → 17%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $120k → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL: $90k → 17%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $112k → 9%MARIA FARERI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $90k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $305k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $280k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $275k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $180k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $180k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $180k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL: $150k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $145k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL: $125k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING: $150k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $150k → 17%MT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $120k → 17%THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $120k → 17%MT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $85k → 17%THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $75k → 17%MT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $60k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 12 repeat orgs$320k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

$6.0M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +21%
  • NY
    New York University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $954k · revenue +76%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $575k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • WP
    White Plains Hospital Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +98%
  • TJ
    THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -11%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
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
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
7
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
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
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
10
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group

Northwestern memorial healthcare is an integrated healthcare system, consisting of multiple hospitals (including northwestern memorial hospital, an academic medical center) and networks of physicians and healthcare professionals, where the…

Health
11
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
12
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montefiore Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is The Johns Hopkins Hospital. 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

14 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. 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,800,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $575,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $330,000 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical CenterTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $289,777 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $235,000 · HealthTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCHMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $150,000 · Health+4 more: $228,430 · Health+4 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,898,586 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN TH…New York University: $953,761 · EducationNew York University+2 more: $175,000 · Education+2 moreMARIA FARERI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $1,212,000 · OtherMARIA FARERI CHILDREN'…NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $225,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS H…THE ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $195,048 · OtherTHE ICAHN SCHOOL OF ME…
Health$3,608,207Education$3,027,347Other$1,632,048

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,898,586 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,800,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $953,761 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $575,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $330,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $289,777 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $235,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $58,430 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pediatric Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pediatric Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital: 0% 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 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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