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Prostate Cancer Foundation

The PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and overall survival of patients.

$34M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$4.1M
Largest
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 2024.

Health$119MHuman Services$98kYouth Development$20k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $26,966,735, the rows itemized in this filing. The $34,297,889 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,331,154 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+17 grants · $25M
$995,843
Median grant
12
States reached
$106M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$4,125,355
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$2,824,975
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$2,585,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$2,465,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO$2,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$1,274,843
CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$1,225,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,167,934
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$1,050,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$1,032,091
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$995,843
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$625,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $48k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME: $25k → 17%JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME: $25k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $7.3M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$3.1M · 42% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CANCER RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$3.1M · 42% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CANCER RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$1.1M · 16% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CANCER RESEARCH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102M · 38 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
21

Total granted

$102M
$9.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+9%

Still filing today

68%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyScience & TechHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +42%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +64%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • UC
    USC CARE MEDICAL GROUP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue +46%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M · revenue +15%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M · revenue +8%
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
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
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
11
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nancy Lieberman Charities. 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

50 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. 50 of the 69 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
42/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $11,030,508 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $10,935,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $7,074,138 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,576,135 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $4,065,574 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $3,676,901 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $3,050,000 · OtherTHE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,917,233 · Other+17 more: $13,490,408 · Other+17 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $13,193,957 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,775,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA U…UCLA FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,253,600 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $1,225,000 · EducationNew York University: $1,225,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,225,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,215,670 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,072,694 · EducationThe George Washington University: $1,000,000 · Education+10 more: $3,595,000 · Education+10 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $8,050,620 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,505,823 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Insti…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,550,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CEN…USC CARE MEDICAL GROUP INC: $1,500,000 · HealthUSC CARE MEDICAL GROUP I…SEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $1,500,000 · HealthSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BI…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $1,500,000 · HealthNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INST…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,250,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,174,922 · Health+10 more: $3,648,000 · Health+10 morePORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · Science & TechROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $650,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $98,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VETERANS' RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$61,815,897Education$28,280,921Health$25,679,365Science & Tech$1,500,000Philanthropy$1,020,000Recreation & Sports$650,000Human Services$98,000Arts & Culture$50,000

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 budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $13,193,957 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $8,050,620 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,505,823 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,917,233 over 4y, 29% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,775,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN: $1,725,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,550,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetUSC CARE MEDICAL GROUP INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH: $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,314,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $1,253,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,215,670 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,174,922 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $1,072,694 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe George Washington University: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetYale University: $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDA: $800,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetNorthwestern University: $650,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH INC: $500,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science: $500,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetWEST SIDE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION: $500,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR RADIATION ONCOLOGY: $262,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $98,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VETERANS' RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BRONX VETERANS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND VA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds USC CARE MEDICAL GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDA ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗

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.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterWA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Yale University · American Heart Association Inc · Northwestern University · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The George Washington University · Trustees of Boston University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cornell University · Johns Hopkins University

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 Prostate Cancer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prostate Cancer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Portland Va Research Foundation: 34% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report 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 69 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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