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Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies.

$512k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$163k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Health$3.3M
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $465,796 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $511,773 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,977 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $47k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $408k
$95,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$162,500
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA$150,000
THE SWIFTY FOUNDATION$95,000
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE$47,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL$6,228
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$5,068
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $333k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $323k → 22%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $150k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $250k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $74k → 11%THE SWIFTY FOUNDATION: $95k → 7%CONQUER CANCER ASCO FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $333k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $236k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANFRANCSICOREGENTS: $45k → 10%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL: $6k → 17%NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $47k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $333k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $210k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $47k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $175k → 22%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $120k → 17%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $22k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $163k → 22%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $21k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $24k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 3 repeat orgs$790k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$2.4M
$539k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $251k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +88%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CANCER CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $147k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +78%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +121%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $74k · revenue +51%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
2
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
3
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
4
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
5
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
6
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
7
Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
8
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
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
10
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Swifty Foundation. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,130,368 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,089,941 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $250,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesNATIONAL CANCER CENTER INC — $147,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $120,000 · Health+1 more — $50,000 · HealthREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $45,000 · Other+1 more — $6,228 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $125,068 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $74,000 · EducationSwifty Foundation — $95,000 · Philanthropy
Health$2,787,309Other$201,228Education$199,068Philanthropy$95,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,130,368 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,089,941 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CANCER CENTER INC — $147,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $125,068 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwifty Foundation — $95,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $74,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Solving Kids' Cancer Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Solving Kids' Cancer Inc?

Find your warmest path to Solving Kids' Cancer Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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