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Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

Fund research to power cures that reduce the percentage of children who perish from cancer until that number reaches zero.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Itemized grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$1.5M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$45,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$550,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 13
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$3.7M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$1.4M23%
FY202411$775k18%
FY202312$1.4M25%
FY202213$1.8M38%
FY202111$1.7M18%
FY202012$1.8M67%
FY201711$1.5Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$11MPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHuman Services$8k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Medical College$4,732,61391%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$660,50090%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$515,56460%
University of California San Francisco$461,2508n/a
University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center$429,2176n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$387,45050%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$367,50040%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$307,00040%
Case Western Reserve University$255,00060%
Seattle Children's Hospital$248,75040%
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All grantees of Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Medical College$4,732,61391%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$660,50090%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$515,56460%
University of California San Francisco$461,2508n/a
University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center$429,2176n/a
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$387,45050%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia$367,50040%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$307,00040%
Case Western Reserve University$255,00060%
Seattle Children's Hospital$248,75040%
Texas Children's Hospital$225,00030%
The V Foundation$204,00010%
City of Hope National Medical Center$200,00030%
Hope for Henry Foundation$179,56346%
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope$152,50040%
Johns Hopkins$150,0002n/a
Baylor College of Medicine$150,00030%
University of Alabama at Birmingham$149,0072n/a
Regents Univ of California$85,2331n/a
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$75,00010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$57,0002n/a
The University of Vermont Medical Center$54,18110%
University of Florida$50,0001n/a
Children's Health Care Foundation$50,00010%
Choc Foundation$50,00010%
New York University$50,00010%
Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford$50,00010%
Barrow Neurological Foundation$50,00010%
University of Denver$35,00010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$29,7002n/a
Children's Hospital of Orange County$25,00010%
Oregon Health & Science University$25,0001n/a
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California$25,0001n/a
Live for Liv Inc$8,00015%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Medical College: $4,732,613 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $660,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $515,564 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $387,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $367,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $307,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $255,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Hospital: $248,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $204,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity of Hope National Medical Center: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHope for Henry Foundation: $179,563 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetBeckman Research Institute of the City of Hope: $152,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Vermont Medical Center: $54,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health Care Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChoc Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarrow Neurological Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Denver: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Orange County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLive for Liv Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Johns Hopkins Univers…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Johns Hopkins UniversityMD13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johns Hopkins University · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

How much does Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation give?
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation reported 15 itemized grants totaling $1,546,000, out of $1,695,918 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%), Public Safety & Disaster (0%), Human Services (0%).
Who are Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New York Medical College ($4.7M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($661k), Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ($516k).
Does Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johns Hopkins University, Charities Aid Foundation America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation based?
Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation is based in CA.

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 37 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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