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· Public charity

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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$550k
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$11MPublic Safety & Disaster$25kHuman Services$8k
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $1,546,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,695,918 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $149,918 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $754k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$45,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE$550,000
V FOUNDATION$204,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING$150,000
CITY OF HOPE$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS$100,000
DANA FARBER$100,000
STANFORD$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$45,000
CASE WESTERN$37,500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$37,500
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$32,000
HOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION$30,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$27,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$25,000
LIVE LIKE LIV FOUNDATION$8,000
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 (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVE LIKE LIV FOUNDATION: $8k → 7%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

VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Pediatric Cancer Research Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 18 repeat orgs$866k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

$9.6M
$629k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+16%

Still filing today

72%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $237k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman 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

  • NY
    NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +10%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $661k · revenue +162%
  • Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    6× · 2017–2022 · $516k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2017 · $85k
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +8%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue +89%
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
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
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
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
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
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
7
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
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
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
10
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
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Live for Liv Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 37 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)
30/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $4,732,613 · OtherNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $461,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $429,217 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER+8 more: $570,940 · Other+8 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $660,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $515,564 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospit…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $387,450 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $367,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHI…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $307,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $248,750 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALTexas Children's Hospital: $225,000 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalTHE V FOUNDATION: $204,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $200,000 · HealthHOPE FOR HENRY FOUNDATION: $179,563 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $152,500 · Health+8 more: $404,181 · Health+8 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $634,200 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $255,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN …UCLA FOUNDATION: $245,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…Baylor College of Medicine: $150,000 · EducationBaylor Colleg…New York University: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $35,000 · EducationLIVE FOR LIV INC: $8,000 · Human Services
Other$6,194,020Health$3,852,008Education$1,369,200Human Services$8,000

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 budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $4,732,613 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $660,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $634,200 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $245,000 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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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