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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$353k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$8.0MEducation$2.5MScience & Tech$302kRecreation & Sports$21k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $1,778,568, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,212,955 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $434,387 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $364k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $353k
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$352,701
CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS$188,731
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON$152,101
H LEE MOFFITT$125,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$125,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$75,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$62,500
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$62,500
BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE CITY OF HOPE$60,895
TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER INC$59,717
THE JACKSON LABORATORY$50,000
MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA$49,998
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$49,997
H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$49,701
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA: $175k → 11%University of Arizona: $125k → 15%University of Rochester: $125k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $172k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VETERANS: $153k → 16%University of Texas HSC at Houston: $146k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $125k → 13%NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $203k → 19%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $111k → 14%University of Kansas Medical Center: $95k → 16%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITY: $125k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $91k → 14%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE: $150k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $138k → 9%University of Arizona: $125k → 15%University of Rochester: $125k → 14%Columbia University Medical Center: $126k → 17%MD Anderson Cancer Center: $127k → 16%H LEE MOFFITT: $125k → 13%Oregon Health & Science University: $125k → 12%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE: $121k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $98k → 15%University of Rochester: $97k → 14%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $125k → 17%MD Anderson Cancer Center: $125k → 16%Oregon Health & Sciences University: $125k → 12%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $353k → 9%Regents of the University of California Los Angeles: $250k → 14%Columbia University Medical Center: $120k → 17%MD Anderson Cancer Center: $123k → 16%Oregon Health & Science University: $121k → 12%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $319k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $297k → 9%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $148k → 14%CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $250k → 9%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $92k → 14%CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $189k → 9%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $90k → 14%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $151k → 9%CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $150k → 9%Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $141k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH: $141k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $125k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $125k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH: $125k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $125k → 9%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

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WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 23 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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26

Total granted

$9.4M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsSocial 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FH
    FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +27%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $447k · revenue +81%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    6× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • NF
    NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $203k · revenue -54%
  • MI
    MEDNET INC
    one grant, 2017 · $63k
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
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
2
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

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,…

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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
9
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…

Health
10
Medstar Health Research Institute Inc

See schedule omedstar health research institute is dedicated to supporting the academic platform of medstar health by conducting high quality translational and health sciences research throughout the medstar system.

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11
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
12
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cleveland Va Medical Research and Education 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

37 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. 37 of the 53 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
31/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $2,331,510 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERUTMD ANDERSON: $773,906 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $757,561 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $631,558 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $575,966 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $423,131 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $250,000 · Other+12 more: $1,061,386 · Other+12 moreCANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $588,665 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTAT…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $320,449 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $316,332 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $250,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medic…NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $202,500 · HealthNORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FO…BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $188,665 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE …Rhode Island Hospital: $179,411 · HealthRhode Island HospitalFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VETERANS' HEALTH RESEARCH: $177,317 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VE…UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $132,618 · Health+13 more: $681,937 · Health+13 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,352,694 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMB…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $446,825 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTE…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $222,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN…Yale University: $165,568 · EducationYale UniversityBaylor College of Medicine: $125,000 · Education+4 more: $159,363 · Education+4 moreNorthwestern University: $230,434 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $47,759 · Social ScienceCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $22,800 · Science & Tech
Other$6,805,018Health$3,037,894Education$2,471,450Recreation & Sports$230,434Social Science$47,759Science & Tech$22,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $2,331,510 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,352,694 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $588,665 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $446,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $320,449 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $316,332 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $230,434 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $222,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $202,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $188,665 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $179,411 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VETERANS' HEALTH RESEARCH: $177,317 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYale University: $165,568 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $132,618 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND VA MEDICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDA: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLoma Linda Veterans Association for Research and Education: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS VA RESEARCH CORPORATION: $49,995 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science: $49,944 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS RESEARCH: $49,944 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $47,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $32,678 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Inc: $32,054 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $26,685 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC HEALTH RESEARCH & EDUCATION INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINDIANA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetLOUISIANA VETERANS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetSALISBURY FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $22,800 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.

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 Cance…Johns Hopkins Univers…The George Washington…University of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…Trustees of Boston Un…Vanderbilt University…Northwestern Universi…American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Mayo ClinicMayo Clinic Group Ret…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Boston Va Research Institute Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 53 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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