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· Public charity

The Cure Starts Now Inc

To educate, aid, and fund cures for cancer, starting first with pediatric brain cancer

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$9.8MEducation$120k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $1,218,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,990,415 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $772,165 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $893k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA)$300,000
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO$100,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA (EMORY UNIVERISTY)$100,000
JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$100,000
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$93,250
UNC ESHELMAN SCHOOL OF PHARMACY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO$50,000
PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100k → 22%SONALASENSE: $198k → 10%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORN: $70k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $100k → 14%MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH & INFORMATION INC: $183k → 6%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO: $100k → 16%TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER & HEMATOLOGY: $200k → 16%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER (UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA): $300k → 14%NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $50k → 13%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $158k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $35k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 11%UNC ESHELMAN SCHOOL OF PHARMACY: $50k → 13%CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA (EMORY UNIVERISTY): $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO ANSCHUTZ HOSPITAL CENTER: $200k → 10%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL COLORADO: $100k → 12%DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $70k → 14%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $2.4M → 16%LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $110k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $50k → 19%DANA FARBER: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH & INFORMATION INC: $83k → 6%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO: $50k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $200k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER-VENKATARAMA: $200k → 12%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (V): $1.5M → 16%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL: $100k → 19%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100k → 17%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $541k → 16%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100k → 17%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $264k → 16%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $35k → 14%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 16%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $93k → 16%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $772k on the FY2024 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.

East Asia and the Pacific$467k · 60% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$165k · 21% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$100k · 13% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

Middle East and North Africa$40k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: MEDICAL RESEARCH

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 7 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+44%

Still filing today

86%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $900k 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 & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +53%
  • Northwestern University
    3× · 2017–2022 · $310k · revenue +41%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    2× · 2017–2023 · $200k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +67%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • CR
    CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +90%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
5
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
6
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
7
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
8
Stanley Manne Childrens Research Institute

Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.

Health
9
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
10
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
11
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
12
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,401,402 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERTHE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC: $279,166 · Health+11 more: $1,009,600 · Health+11 moreREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $550,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVER…UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: $300,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDASONALASENSE: $198,436 · OtherSONALASENSEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $157,856 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVER…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM …THE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA: $150,000 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH…PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherPEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR…UTMD ANDERSON: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $70,000 · Other+2 more: $100,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationTHE BOARD O…Baylor College of Medicine: $200,000 · EducationBaylor Coll…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOO…Emory University: $100,000 · EducationEmory Unive…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKI…University of Chicago: $100,000 · EducationUniversity …DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationNorthwestern University: $310,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$6,690,168Other$1,901,292Education$1,000,000Recreation & Sports$310,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,401,402 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $310,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSELLA FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN TUMOR RESEARCH AND INFORMATION INC: $279,166 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $69,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cure Starts Now Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cure Starts Now Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Cure Starts Now Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Cure Starts Now Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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