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Pledge the Pink Foundation

Provide funds for cancer research and care.

$817k
Granted FY2025still arriving
64
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$51k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$3.3M
02FY2025 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $176k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $591k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$10,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$198k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSC$51,000
NATIONAL BREAT CANCER FOUNDATION$35,700
MARSHFIELD CLINIC FOUNDATION$34,346
SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOU$33,150
BREAT FRIENDS OF PENNSYLVANIA$30,615
MARYS PLACE BY THE SEA$26,827
SISTERS BY CHOICE$25,500
GATEWAY TO HOPE$25,179
DUKE UNIVERSITY$22,039
TRINITY HEALTH$20,538
VIM HILTON HEAD$20,400
THE CLARA M ROBINSON FOUNDATION IN$20,000
FOR 3 SISTERS$18,724
TEAM TIARA$18,240
CRYSTAL SMITH FOUNDATION LEXINGTON$17,047
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHADES OF PINK FDTN: $7k → 11%FACES OF COURAGE CANCER CAMPS: $3k → 13%SISTERS BY CHOICE: $26k → 14%VAIL VALLEY CHRITABLE FUND: $5k → 7%STEP SISTERS: $18k → 4%SISTERS BY CHOICE: $21k → 14%VAIL VALLEY CHARITABLE FUND MAMMOGR: $5k → 7%THE STEP SISTERS CHEMO: $15k → 4%SISTERS BY CHOICE: $9k → 14%STEP SISTERS: $5k → 4%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

ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
LA
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 39 repeat orgs$608k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
24

Total granted

$2.7M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
0%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $382k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterReligionEducationOther
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

  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $406k · revenue +377%
  • BM
    BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $254k · revenue +135%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $198k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -50%
  • BS
    Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +38%
  • BC
    BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -22%
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
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
2
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health
5
The Rose

The mission of the rose is saving lives through quality breast health services, advocacy and access to care for all.

—
6
Woman's Hospital Foundation D/B/a Woman's Hospital

To improve the health of women and infants.

Health
7
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
8
Breastcancerorg

Our mission is to help people make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast health and breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.

Health
9
Uva Prince William Health System

Uva prince william health system ("pwhs") is part of the uva community health enterprise, an integrated network of not-for-profit, tax-exempt entities that includes physician offices, outpatient facilities and community medical centers.…

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10
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
11
Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association

Morristown-Hamblen Hospital Association provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
12
Partners for Breast Cancer Careinc

To provide public education and assistance to those without necessary resources and whom have the need for diagnosis and treatment of breast disease.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Howard County General Hospital Inc. 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

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 99 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
39/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $406,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $253,546 · HealthBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $198,163 · HealthNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INCSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $168,200 · HealthSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System FoundationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $144,188 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $102,750 · HealthGOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT: $91,857 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $91,508 · HealthFOR 3 SISTERS INC: $83,853 · Health+47 more: $774,223 · Health+47 moreTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $165,400 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICIN…NEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $130,300 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNE…ALLIANCE OF DIVINE LOVE INC: $80,493 · OtherALLIANCE OF DIVINE LOVE I…MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS: $56,268 · OtherMERCY HEALTH PARTNERSLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $48,654 · OtherLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER …TEAM TIARA: $35,661 · Other+24 more: $244,078 · Other+24 moreSISTERS BY CHOICE INC: $56,298 · Human ServicesTHE STEP SISTERS: $38,000 · Human ServicesVail Valley Charitable Fund Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHADES OF PINK FOUNDATION CALIFORNIA: $6,904 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $67,152 · Public Safety & DisasterDUKE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIES INC: $22,039 · PhilanthropyENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,197 · PhilanthropyTHE AMI FOUNDATION: $8,367 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC: $7,650 · PhilanthropyBREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $3,750 · PhilanthropyBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $21,282 · ReligionUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,003 · Education
Health$2,314,288Other$760,854Human Services$113,702Public Safety & Disaster$67,152Philanthropy$57,003Religion$21,282Education$5,003

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $406,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $253,546 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $198,163 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $168,200 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $165,400 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $144,188 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CANCER CONNECTION: $130,300 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $102,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT: $91,857 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $91,508 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOR 3 SISTERS INC: $83,853 over 5y, 24% of budgetLITTLE PINK HOUSES OF HOPE: $75,072 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $67,152 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERS BY CHOICE INC: $56,298 over 3y, 14% of budgetMERCY HEALTH PARTNERS: $56,268 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Santa Rosa Foundation: $55,070 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMARY'S PLACE BY THE SEA INC: $51,122 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LEXINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION: $48,654 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE STEP SISTERS: $38,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $29,810 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE: $25,179 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $24,842 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC: $23,490 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIES INC: $22,039 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $21,282 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLUFFTON-JASPER COUNTY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT RENEWAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLORIA GEMMA BREAST CANCER RESOURCE FOUNDATION: $19,983 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTAUNIA OECHSLIN GIRLS NIGHT OUT FOUNDATION: $18,169 over 3y, 33% of budgetThe IIIB's Foundation: $17,883 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $16,288 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLER HOSPITAL INC: $15,642 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $15,197 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEISINGER-LEWISTOWN HOSPITAL: $15,157 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPink Soles in Motion: $15,034 over 2y, 11% of budgetGEORGIA ALLIANCE FOR BREAST CANCER F/K/A IT'S THE JOURNEY: $15,012 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUPMC CHAUTAUQUA AT WCA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST PETER'S FOUNDATION: $14,431 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLORY HOPE & LIFE INC: $14,038 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,968 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKOOTENAI HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN BREAST HEALTH NETWORK: $12,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHOWARD COUNTY GENERAL HOSPITAL INC: $11,422 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS-TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES FOUNDATION: $10,285 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,245 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABCD INC: $10,200 over 1y, 0.8% 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 Duke EndowmentAmerican Cancer Socie…Will Rogers Motion Pi…Community Foundation …Coastal Community Fou…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Chubb Charitable Foun…Dominion Energy Chari…Direct ReliefThe Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Robert Wood Johns…
The Duke EndowmentNC19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Duke Endowment · American Cancer Society Inc · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Direct Relief · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Howard County General Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 99 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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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