How much does The Hope Foundation give?

The Hope Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $1,778,568, out of $2,212,955 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does The Hope Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (74%), Education (23%), Science & Tech (3%).

Who are The Hope Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($2.3M), Utmd Anderson ($774k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($758k).

Does The Hope Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Hope Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, The George Washington University.

Where is The Hope Foundation based?

The Hope Foundation is based in MI.

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Michigan · Public charity

The Hope Foundation

As the philanthropic arm of the swog cancer research network, THE HOPE FOUNDATION strives to provide funding and resources for cancer clinical trials research in various forms of adult cancers. Fellowships, research grants, professional medical education training sessions, technical equipment, and meeting coordination are funded by the…

$2.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 23
Itemized grants FY2025: 13
Organizations funded FY2024: 23%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.8M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $352,701
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 17; FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 11
Total assets, FY2025: $65M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $665k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationSocial ScienceScience & TechOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$1.7M	7%
FY2024	13	$2.3M	23%
FY2023	11	$895k	55%
FY2021	15	$1.1M	47%
FY2020	10	$1.2M	50%
FY2019	15	$1.2M	33%
FY2018	14	$976k	43%
FY2017	17	$1.5M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$8.0MEducation$2.5MScience & Tech$302kRecreation & Sports$21k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	$2,331,510	9	0%
Utmd Anderson	$773,906	6	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$757,561	6	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University	$631,558	4	n/a
Cancer Research and Biostatistics	$588,665	2	4%
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc	$575,966	8	n/a
University of Rochester	$446,825	3	0%
University of Arizona	$423,131	4	n/a
The Jackson Laboratory	$320,449	6	0%
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$316,332	3	0%

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All grantees of The Hope Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	$2,331,510	9	0%
Utmd Anderson	$773,906	6	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$757,561	6	n/a
Oregon Health & Science University	$631,558	4	n/a
Cancer Research and Biostatistics	$588,665	2	4%
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc	$575,966	8	n/a
University of Rochester	$446,825	3	0%
University of Arizona	$423,131	4	n/a
The Jackson Laboratory	$320,449	6	0%
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc	$316,332	3	0%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	$250,000	2	0%
Regents Univ of California	$250,000	1	n/a
Northwestern University	$230,434	4	0%
Mayo Clinic	$224,998	2	n/a
North Florida Foundation for Research and Education Inc	$202,500	1	5%
University of Texas Health Science Center Houston	$197,709	4	n/a
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope	$188,665	5	0%
University of Washington	$187,963	3	n/a
Rhode Island Hospital	$179,411	3	0%
Foundation for Advancing Veterans' Health Research	$177,317	3	3%
Regents of the University of Colorado	$140,771	5	n/a
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute	$132,618	2	0%
Baylor College of Medicine	$125,000	2	0%
City of Hope	$100,000	2	0%
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Foundation Inc	$100,000	3	0%
Mednet Inc	$62,500	1	n/a
Washington University	$62,500	1	0%
University of Hawaii System	$60,030	2	n/a
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc	$59,717	1	n/a
Cleveland Va Medical Research and Education Foundation	$50,000	2	1%
Philadelphia Research & Education Founda	$50,000	1	3%
Loma Linda Veterans Association for Research and Education	$50,000	1	2%
Boston Va Research Institute Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Loyola University Medical Center	$50,000	2	0%
Dallas Va Research Corporation	$49,995	1	2%
Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science	$49,944	1	1%
Western Institute for Veterans Research	$49,944	1	1%
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences	$47,759	1	0%
Emory University	$37,500	1	0%
University of Utah	$36,000	1	n/a
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	$32,678	2	0%
Baptist Health South Florida Inc	$32,054	1	0%
The University of Tennessee	$30,898	2	n/a
Johns Hopkins University	$26,685	1	0%
Pacific Health Research & Education Institute	$25,000	1	1%
Indiana Institute for Medical Research Inc	$25,000	1	9%
Louisiana Veterans Research and Education Corporation	$25,000	1	52%
Salisbury Foundation for Research and Education Inc	$25,000	1	6%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	$22,800	1	0%
West Cancer Center	$10,800	1	n/a

The Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterWA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center · Johns Hopkins University · The George Washington University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Trustees of Boston University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Northwestern University · American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Mayo Clinic · Mayo Clinic Group Return

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Hope Foundation

How much does The Hope Foundation give?: The Hope Foundation reported 23 itemized grants totaling $1,778,568, out of $2,212,955 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Hope Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (74%), Education (23%), Science & Tech (3%).
Who are The Hope Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ($2.3M), Utmd Anderson ($774k), Regents of the University of Michigan ($758k).
Does The Hope Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hope Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins University, The George Washington University.
Where is The Hope Foundation based?: The Hope Foundation is based in MI.