· Private foundation
The Farrah Fawcett Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $273k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $145,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $127,500 |
| KINDRED BOX INC | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES | $12,000 |
| KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ANAL NEOPLASIA SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANTI CANCER LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $250 |
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 (FY22–24, $40k) 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AHAGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +32%
- AHALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +156%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angeles4× · 2020–2024 · $49k · revenue +27%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +123%- GMGeorge Mark Childrens Fundgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +54%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- DAVISone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
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…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.
The aveni foundation is committed to expediting development of gene-targeted therapies for metastatic cancers and other unmet medical needs.
The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…
The Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute ALCMI is dedicated to catalyzing and accelerating the discovery, development and delivery of new and more effective treatment options for lung cancer patients.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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.
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGNESIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALTRU HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds Kindred Box Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HPV AND ANAL CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds THE ANTICANCER LIFESTYLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Farrah Fawcett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Farrah Fawcett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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