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Phase One Foundation

To provide support to phase 1 clinical research & treatment programs for the cancer therapy.

$971k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$222,366
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$6.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Phase One Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving9$971k67%
FY20233$680k33%
FY20225$766k60%
FY20213$625k0%
FY20203$777k33%
FY20193$439k0%
FY20185$850k80%
FY20176$253kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.0MScience & Tech$2.3MEducation$588k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents Univ of California$1,617,0845n/a
City of Hope$1,381,10270%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$410,92321%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$323,80130%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$311,91630%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$185,12010%
The Weill Family Foundation$183,21510%
Universoty of Southern California$150,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$100,00010%
Regents of the University of California$100,0001n/a
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All grantees of Phase One Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents Univ of California$1,617,0845n/a
City of Hope$1,381,10270%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$410,92321%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$323,80130%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$311,91630%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$185,12010%
The Weill Family Foundation$183,21510%
Universoty of Southern California$150,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$100,00010%
Regents of the University of California$100,0001n/a
Los Angeles Unified School District$82,0342n/a
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation$80,00011%
Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc$60,47112%
Imerman Angels$50,00013%
Sharsheret Inc$50,00011%
Tias Hope$39,15824%
Friends of Cancer Research$15,00010%
Walk With Sally$10,00013%
Pablove Foundation Inc$25010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($210k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Phase One Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCity of Hope: $1,381,102 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $410,923 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $323,801 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $311,916 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $185,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Weill Family Foundation: $183,215 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation: $80,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetForce-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc: $60,471 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetImerman Angels: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTias Hope: $39,158 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFriends of Cancer Research: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWalk With Sally: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPablove Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 15.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Phase One Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Phase One Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Phase One Foundation

How much does Phase One Foundation give?
Phase One Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $971,172 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Phase One Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (51%), Science & Tech (39%), Education (10%).
Who are Phase One Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Regents Univ of California ($1.6M), City of Hope ($1.4M), Saint John's Health Center Foundation ($411k).
Does Phase One Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Phase One Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Phase One Foundation based?
Phase One 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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