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Teen Cancer America Inc

The mission of teen cancer america is to increase survival and improve the lives of adolescents and young adults with cancer by transforming health systems to better serve their needs.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$238k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Health$6.7MEducation$2.6M
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
$101,250
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UF SHANDS$238,007
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$179,722
MAYO CLINIC$149,580
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN$110,000
RUSH UNIVERSITY$101,500
CLEVELAND CLINIC$101,250
NEMOURS$91,912
MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN$82,950
WAKE FOREST$62,454
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - MOTT$50,000
NORTHWESTERN$40,000
CHRISTIANA CARE$7,275
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAYO CLINIC: $150k → 11%NEMOURS: $92k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $349k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MINNESOTA: $50k → 11%UCLA FOUNDATION: $350k → 14%UC DAVIS: $283k → 16%UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM - SAN ANTONIO TEXAS: $296k → 16%LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL STANFORD: $412k → 10%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL: $280k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HEALTH SYSTEMS: $10k → 15%UF SHANDS: $238k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $232k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - MOTT: $220k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $180k → 16%MERCY ST LOUIS: $160k → 11%CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS: $250k → 11%VANDERBUILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $550k → 14%DUKE: $400k → 11%UNC: $200k → 13%WAKE FORREST: $528k → 15%IU HEALTH: $269k → 18%OHIO STATE UNIVERSIRTY: $296k → 15%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $465k → 14%NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%NORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $132k → 11%CHRISTIANACARE: $92k → 10%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $80k → 16%GREENVILLE - PRISMA HEALTH: $271k → 10%MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN: $83k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN - MOTT: $50k → 14%UNC LINEBERGER: $230k → 13%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $172k → 15%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%CHRISTIANA CARE: $7k → 10%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%GREENVILLE - PRISMA HEALTH: $91k → 10%NORTHWESTERN: $40k → 14%Bon Secours: $320k → 10%NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $590 → 14%RUSH UNIVERSITY: $102k → 14%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

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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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 8 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
21

Total granted

$2.5M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+44%

Still filing today

50%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $781k went to new ones.

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

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

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HealthEducationOther

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

  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    2× · 2020–2025 · $590k · revenue +60%
  • PH
    Prisma Health
    2× · 2019–2020 · $363k · revenue +203%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $550k · revenue +110%
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2018 · $465k
  • LS
    LUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $412k · revenue +26%

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.

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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
2
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
3
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
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
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
6
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
7
Emory University

Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)

Education
8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
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Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
11
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
12
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,529

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 38 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $550,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD — $412,000 · HealthLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ST…M D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATION — $400,000 · HealthM D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATIONPrisma Health — $362,700 · HealthPrisma HealthUniversity Health Foundation — $296,000 · HealthUniversity Health FoundationCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $280,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALIndiana University Health Inc — $268,862 · HealthIndiana University Health IncCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC — $238,007 · HealthSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INCTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $236,250 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS — $160,000 · Health+6 more — $463,557 · Health+6 moreNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE — $464,783 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCAREUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $430,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HI…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM — $390,329 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMBon Secours — $320,000 · OtherBon SecoursTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $295,942 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $282,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $270,206 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANState University of Iowa — $232,437 · OtherState University of IowaNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $171,598 · OtherMAYO CLINIC — $149,580 · OtherNORTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $132,311 · Other+3 more — $292,502 · Other+3 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $590,382 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY …DUKE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUCLA FOUNDATION — $350,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTrustees of Tufts College — $348,908 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Colle…Yale University — $125,000 · EducationYale UniversityTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $110,000 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF …+1 more — $10,000 · Education
Health$3,917,376Other$3,432,188Education$1,934,290

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 budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $590,382 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $550,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD — $412,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetM D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATION — $400,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPrisma Health — $362,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $348,908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Health Foundation — $296,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $280,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndiana University Health Inc — $268,862 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC — $238,007 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $236,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ST LOUIS — $160,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $130,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYale University — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRush University Medical Center — $101,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $91,912 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC — $82,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $49,920 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $7,275 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Child's PlayMuscular Dystrophy As…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Chicago Community…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Renaissance Charitabl…Vanguard Charitable E…
American Cancer Society IncGA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Child's Play · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Teen Cancer America 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
  • Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% 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
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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