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Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients.

$618k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$113k
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$7.1MScience & Tech$3.2MEducation$300k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $593k
$80,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDS AT MOUNT SIANAI$112,500
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP$100,000
CITY OF HOPE$100,000
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$75,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$75,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH$50,000
WHITEHEAD INSITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Bringham and Women's Hospital Research: $75k → 16%Trustees University of Pennsylvania: $125k → 22%Stanford University: $200k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $200k → 11%City of Hope: $100k → 14%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $80k → 28%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $100k → 15%St Judes Hospital: $38k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $50k → 13%University of Notre Dame: $38k → 13%BEN TOWNE CENTER OF CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH: $63k → 9%Leidos Biomedical Research Inc: $38k → 6%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $300k → 8%University of Maryland: $38k → 19%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL RESEARCH: $50k → 16%Trustees University of Pennsylvania: $100k → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO: $45k → 10%SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $150k → 11%CITY OF HOPE: $100k → 14%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $80k → 28%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $50k → 15%The Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: $38k → 13%NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH: $300k → 8%BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $40k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO: $45k → 10%The Salk Insitute for Bilogical Studies: $75k → 11%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $454k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $100k → 16%Stanford Univeristy: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN FRANCISCO: $42k → 10%Memorial Sloan Kettering: $238k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $75k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $200k → 17%University of Chicago: $75k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $113k → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering: $100k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $100k → 17%The General Hospital Corp dba Massachusetts Gener: $125k → 16%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $100k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100k → 17%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 29 repeat orgs$294k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
9

Total granted

$9.3M
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+53%

Still filing today

55%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceOther
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

  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +58%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +121%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $702k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • BT
    BEN TOWNE CENTER OF CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · $63k
  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $63k · revenue +53%
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
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
10
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 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

23 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. 23 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
21/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,310,443 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $701,763 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR …Baylor College of Medicine: $300,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $225,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $225,000 · EducationAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $210,000 · Education+6 more: $430,000 · Education+6 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,251,201 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CA…Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $600,000 · HealthFoundation for the National…CITY OF HOPE: $225,000 · HealthCITY OF HOPEDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institut…WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $197,252 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIO…+2 more: $125,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $369,167 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA …MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $287,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCO…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $280,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCO…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $254,938 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROL…UTMD ANDERSON: $215,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $175,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCO…Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $165,000 · OtherWeill Medical College of …LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $120,706 · Other+11 more: $424,887 · Other+11 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $550,000 · Science & TechNorthwestern University: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $25,000 · Social Science
Education$4,902,206Health$2,598,453Other$2,417,198Science & Tech$550,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Social Science$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,310,443 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1,251,201 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $701,763 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $600,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $550,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $300,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $197,252 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $62,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $15,000 over 2y, 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 ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 43 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
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$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
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