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The Deborah J McKenna Foundation for Cancer Research and Treatment at a glance

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The Deborah J McKenna Foundation for Cancer Research and Treatment

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

93% of The Deborah J McKenna Foundation for Cancer Research and Treatment’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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$414kEducation$239kHuman Services$3k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$771k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$50,000
CAMP KESEM NATIONAL$3,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $3k → 14%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.
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.
03Its 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.

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Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
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Kennedy University Hospital Inc

To function as an academic medical center that provides the finest healthcare services with excellent outcomes to people living in our communities. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.

Health
3
Abington Memorial Hospital

The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…

Health
4
Lansdale Hospital

The organization is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all by fostering healing, easing suffering, and promoting wellness in a culture of safety, learning and respect. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community…

Health
5
Jefferson Health - Northeast

To provide exceptional patient care and customer service to members of the communities served by the hospitals, and to recognize a patient's right to considerate and respectful care, regardless of ability to pay. please refer to schedule o…

Health
6
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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Albert Einstein Healthcare Network Group Letter Ruling

Aehn group is licensed to operate 721 acute care beds. tertiary care is provided through three locations, its main campus in north philadelphia, its campus at montgomery county and at elkins park (until june 30, 2023). in addition, its…

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8
Temple University Hospital Inc

See Schedule OOur mission is to support Temple University and its Health Sciences Center academic programs by providing the clinical environment and service to support the highest quality teaching and training programs for health care…

Health
9
Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)

Health
10
The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents

The magee memorial hospital for convalescents' mission is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services. please refer to schedule o for the…

Health
11
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Main Line Hospitals Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Kesem National. 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

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $201,000 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INCLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $131,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONMain Line Hospitals Inc: $30,000 · HealthMain Line Hospitals Inc+1 more: $2,020 · HealthTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $100,025 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College: $88,500 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…Camp Kesem National: $3,000 · Human Services
Health$414,020Education$238,525Human Services$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC: $201,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $131,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $100,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $88,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMain Line Hospitals Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,020 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 Deborah J McKenna Foundation for Cancer Research and Treatment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Deborah J McKenna Foundation for Cancer Research and Treatment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 9 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-PF 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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