· Public charity
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc
The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $4.1M
- $250k+49 grants · $57M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $5,996,194 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $5,907,893 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $2,956,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,868,391 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSITUTE | $2,700,000 |
| THE ASCO CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,591,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $1,995,273 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $1,950,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,857,714 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $1,474,999 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $1,306,208 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $1,294,751 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $1,232,999 |
| AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $1,159,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,065,361 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $11M on the FY2025 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.
Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH
Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH
Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH
Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 62 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $29M · revenue +162%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +44%- CCCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +38%
Funded once
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $12M · revenue +1%
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2024 · $3.2M · revenue 0%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2024 · $2.3M
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.
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.
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How this is measured
86 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. 86 of the 122 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · Washington University · Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation · Cornell University · Mayo Clinic · University of Pittsburgh · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Georgetown University · Metavivor Research and Support Inc · Alliance Nctn Foundation · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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