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Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation

In the fight for a dipg/dmg cure, the foundation helps patients and families by funding game-changing research and providing navigation throughout their journey.

$7.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$15MScience & Tech$3.7MEducation$617kFood & Nutrition$121k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $6,303,672 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,681,019 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,377,347 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $79k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $682k
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.5M
$176,260
Median grant
13
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,629,755
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$1,047,540
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$601,500
DUKE UNIVERSITY$382,900
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO$382,560
METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITU$366,690
MD ANDERSON CANCER$289,425
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$287,650
BROAD INSTITUTE$270,560
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$255,058
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$233,890
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$176,260
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COL$150,510
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRI$121,104
LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$29,578
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROAD INSTITUTE: $271k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - RESEARCH: $125k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $176k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $125k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $175k → 22%LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $335k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $288k → 17%METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITU: $367k → 16%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $126k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $123k → 19%ST JUDE: $125k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.6M → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $234k → 11%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $128k → 12%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $193k → 12%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $135k → 19%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & STATE AGRI: $121k → 10%THE JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $125k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO: $383k → 8%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - RESEARCH: $125k → 16%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $325k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $1.3M → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $125k → 11%SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $255k → 9%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COL: $151k → 8%MD ANDERSON CANCER: $289k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $736k → 14%CURE STARTS NOW INC (DIPG COLLABORATIVE): $105k → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS: $125k → 19%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $123k → 8%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $200k → 17%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $125k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $589k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $383k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $525k → 14%DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $123k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $495k → 14%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $602k → 16%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $328k → 8%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $436k → 14%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $386k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $436k → 14%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $175k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200k → 17%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $155k → 16%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $147k → 16%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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MN
IL
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NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
MD
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TN
NC
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Grants abroad, by region — $1.4M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$1.4M · 100% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH GRANTS · RESEARCH GRANT

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. 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.

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 29 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
4

Total granted

$16M
$375k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+26%

Still filing today

72%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +132%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $675k · revenue +49%
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN
    5× · 2017–2022 · $600k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2021 · $125k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · 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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
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
3
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
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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
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
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
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
9
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
10
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
11
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University 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 44 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%19%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%68%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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,519

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

31 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. 31 of the 46 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
26/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $6,162,481 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $1,994,720 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCOMETHODIST HOSPITAL — $366,690 · Other+14 more — $2,127,740 · Other+14 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,662,699 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute…WEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN — $600,000 · HealthWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEW…LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $493,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FO…The Broad Institute Inc — $270,560 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $260,900 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $255,058 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $224,516 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $212,683 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 · HealthSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $189,320 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $185,226 · Health+4 more — $358,793 · Health+4 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY — $674,567 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $618,523 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES …Baylor College of Medicine — $458,080 · EducationBaylor College of Medi…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — $382,560 · EducationMassachusetts Institut…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $325,150 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMB…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $275,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSI…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $233,890 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $212,240 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICI…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $187,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $185,226 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $150,510 · Education+1 more — $125,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University — $74,091 · Recreation & Sports
Other$10,651,631Health$4,912,755Education$3,828,246Philanthropy$100,000Recreation & Sports$74,091

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,662,699 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $674,567 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $618,523 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWEILL CORNELL IMAGING AT NEWYORK-PRESBYTERIAN — $600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $493,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $458,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $382,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $325,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $270,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL — $260,900 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $255,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $233,890 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $224,516 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $212,683 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $212,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE — $189,320 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $187,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $185,226 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $185,226 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $155,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $150,510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $144,215 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwestern University — $74,091 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD — $29,578 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation 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 · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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