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· Public charity

Solving Kids' Cancer Inc

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

$332k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$58k
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 2023.

Health$3.3M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $285,476, the rows itemized in this filing. The $331,876 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $46,400 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $208k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$58,214
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE$50,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF$50,000
TY LOUIS CAMPBELL FOUNDATION$50,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF$35,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$34,807
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS$7,455
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 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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: $50k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA: $150k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $250k → 14%TY LOUIS CAMPBELL FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $74k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF: $35k → 12%THE SWIFTY FOUNDATION: $95k → 7%CONQUER CANCER ASCO FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $100k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $35k → 19%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: $50k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $333k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $210k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $120k → 17%NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: $47k → 8%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: $58k → 22%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
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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
NC

Grants abroad, by region: $44k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 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)$38k · 84% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CANCER RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$7k · 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 3 repeat orgs$967k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +78% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$2.5M
$790k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +88%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +91%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CANCER CENTER INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $197k · revenue -21%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +78%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +121%
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
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

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
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
4
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
5
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
6
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
7
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
8
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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9
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
10
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
11
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
12
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,188,582 · 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: $197,000 · HealthNATIONAL CANCER CENTER INCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $120,000 · Health+2 more: $100,000 · HealthREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $150,000 · OtherREGENTS O…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $50,000 · OtherREGENTS O…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $45,000 · OtherUNIVERSIT…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $35,000 · OtherREGENTS O…+2 more: $13,683 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $125,068 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $74,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $34,807 · EducationSwifty Foundation: $95,000 · Philanthropy
Health$2,945,523Other$293,683Education$233,875Philanthropy$95,000

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 budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,188,582 over 7y, 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: $197,000 over 3y, 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 budgetTY LOUIS CAMPBELL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $34,807 over 1y, 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Solving Kids' Cancer Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solving Kids' Cancer Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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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