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St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc

The mission of st. Jude children's research hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder danny thomas, no child is denied (continued on schedule o) treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.

$11M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
70%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$3.8M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,501,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 10
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$12.9B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 70% of the organizations St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & TechArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$3.8M44%
FY202410$232k70%
FY20237$10M43%
FY20223$133k33%
FY20214$1.6M0%
FY20203$1.5M0%
FY20196$1.5M17%
FY20189$4.3M44%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$23MEducation$5.3MScience & Tech$101kCommunity Improvement$65kRecreation & Sports$17kArts & Culture$6kPublic Benefit$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
RI
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation$13,514,269239%
The University of Tennessee$5,205,3915n/a
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc$5,000,00040%
Saint Francis Medical Center$2,454,5455n/a
Church Health Center of Memphis Inc$961,50081%
University Health Shreveport$517,4641n/a
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc$135,00020%
Gordon Research Conferences Inc$93,00040%
Cervivor Inc$60,0001n/a
American Academy of Physician Associates Inc$60,00010%
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Where it is load-bearing

St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $13,514,269 over 2y, 39% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc: $5,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChurch Health Center of Memphis Inc: $961,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetThe University of Tennessee Foundation Inc: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGordon Research Conferences Inc: $93,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Academy of Physician Associates Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFederation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBelmont University: $31,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Children's Hospitals Inc: $28,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Regional Medical Center at Memphis Foundation: $22,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBluff City Medical Society Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHpv Cancers Alliance: $19,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetThe MMBC Continuum: $15,350 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Medical Technology Policy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAssociation of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChild Life Council Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInternational Society for Experimental Hematology: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetArkansas Immunization Action Coalition: $7,260 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $6,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Memphis Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana Immunization Coalition Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

March of Dimes IncVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: March of Dimes Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc

How much does St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc give?
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $3,781,760, out of $10,986,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (81%), Education (19%), Science & Tech (0%).
Who are St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ($14M), The University of Tennessee ($5.2M), Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc ($5.0M).
Does St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include March of Dimes Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc based?
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc is based in TN.

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 31 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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