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· Public charity

Sarcoma Foundation of America

The mission of the organization is to advocate for sarcoma patients by funding research and by increasing awareness about the disease.

$934k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$7.5MEducation$120kScience & Tech$100k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $527,035, the rows itemized in this filing. The $934,210 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $407,175 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $457k
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND CLINIC PHILANTHROPY INSTITUTE$57,035
UNIV OF TX MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$50,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO$50,000
MAYO CLINIC$50,000
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$50,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$50,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$50,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$50,000
UM BOARD OF REGENTS (UNIV MICHIGAN SPORE)$40,000
ASSOCIATION OF CANCER CARE CENTERS$30,000
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 (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%U C SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION UCSD: $23k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%UM BOARD OF REGENTS (UNIV MICHIGAN SPORE): $40k → 14%SITEMAN CANCER CENTER: $65k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $50k → 10%OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUT-CITY OF HOPE: $50k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%ASSOCIATION OF CANCER CARE CENTERS: $30k → 8%CITY OF HOPE: $30k → 14%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

MN
IL
MI
MA
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $400k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Ireland$200k · 50% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GRANT - RICHARD AND VALERIE ARONSOHN MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD · GRANT - SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA RESEARCH AWARD

North America (Canada and Mexico)$100k · 25% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: GRANT - TIRATH FAMILY RESEARCH AWARD · GRANT - DON HARP MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD - POUL SORENSEN, MD, PHD

France$50k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANT - JAY VERNON JACKSON MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD

Netherlands$50k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GRANT - CHRIS LANGBEIN MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 25 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
32

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+34%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyScience & TechOther
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    5× · 2017–2021 · $950k · revenue +121%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $584k · revenue +76%
  • THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $527k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • EU
    Emory Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $63k · revenue +61%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $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
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
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
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
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
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
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Health Research 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

39 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. 39 of the 63 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)
38/39
Grantees still filing
35/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $950,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $527,041 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $409,000 · HealthCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncSARC: $200,000 · HealthSARCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · Health+9 more: $500,616 · Health+9 moreUTMD ANDERSON: $450,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $250,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORA…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $200,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION OF MD & DC: $104,480 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $100,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $100,000 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 · Other+20 more: $962,516 · Other+20 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $583,741 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $264,492 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $105,796 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCO…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · Education+10 more: $462,272 · Education+10 moreNorthwestern University: $257,997 · Recreation & SportsUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyHUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY: $50,000 · Science & Tech
Health$2,986,657Other$2,416,996Education$1,916,301Recreation & Sports$257,997Philanthropy$50,000Science & Tech$50,000

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 budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $950,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $583,741 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $527,041 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $409,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $264,492 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $257,997 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSARC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $105,796 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION OF MD & DC: $104,480 over 3y, 20% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $71,306 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $63,285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON-ALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $30,254 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY CANCER CENTERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $18,733 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.

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.

Trustees of Tufts Col…The Trustees of Colum…American Cancer Socie…Johns Hopkins Univers…Vanderbilt University…American Heart Associ…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Trustees of Tufts CollegeMA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trustees of Tufts College · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · American Heart Association Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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.
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How do I get to Sarcoma Foundation of America?

Find your warmest path to Sarcoma Foundation of America 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.

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 63 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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