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· Public charity
The Cancer League Inc
The Cancer League is a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit that funds groundbreaking cancer research at its early stages.
$527k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$342k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Education$978kHealth$732kFood & Nutrition$55kOther$102k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
detection
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $342k
$175,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$352k
Total assets
Largest grants
- UCSF Foundation$341,603
- Stanford Medical Center$175,000
- Culinary Angels$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 70% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 6 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
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Total granted
$1.8M
$83k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+74%
+108%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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
UCSF Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $935k · revenue +74%- SMStanford Medical Center5× · 2020–2024 · $665k · revenue +79%
- OFOkizu Foundation4× · 2020–2023 · $69k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- JMJohn Muir Healthgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +126%
- WSWomen s Cancer Resource Centerone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -10%
- BABay Area Tumor Instituteone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue -100%
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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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
Education
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Cancer Prevention Institute of California (Cpic)
As the nation's premier organization, CPIC was dedicated to preventing cancer and reducing its burden where it cannot yet be prevented. CPIC's innovative cancer prevention research and outreach programs were delivering a comprehensive…
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Health
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Sutter Bay Hospitals
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Health
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Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care
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City of Hope
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. Our vision is to conquer cancer and diabetes for people everywhere by integrating scientific discovery, clinical ingenuity, and compassion.
Health
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Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement
Promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the Kaiser Permanente model of integration through provider based health plans
Health
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Bay Area Cancer Connections
Bay area cancer connections ("bacc") provides an array of services, which collectively, aim to ensure that from diagnosis through thriving post-treatment and living with cancer, those facing breast and/or ovarian cancer have the…
Health
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Uc Healthcare System
Uc healthcare system is the sole member of uc health, llc and is responsible for facilitating interaction, cooperation and communication between the various entities that make up the uc health system to ensure a superior academic medical…
Health
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H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research
To promote and support h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute, inc. and its subs.
Health
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Kern County Cancer Foundation
Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.
Health
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Cancer Carepoint Inc
Cancer carepoint is dedicated to transforming support for cancer patients, families and caregivers in silicon valley through personalized, one-on-one counseling, assistance, resources and education.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sutter Health and the most unlike its peers is Stanford Health Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$978,374Health$732,000Other$101,500Food & Nutrition$55,300
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UCSF Foundation ↗
- Who funds Stanford Medical Center ↗
- Who funds Okizu Foundation ↗
- Who funds Culinary Angels ↗
- Who funds Lazarez Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds John Muir Health ↗
- Who funds Women s Cancer Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Sutter Health Philanthropy ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Tumor Institute ↗
- Who funds George Mark s Children s House ↗
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.
East Bay Community FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation The Cancer League 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Culinary Angels.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 842906765 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Culinary Angels, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Cancer League Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Cancer League Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines