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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$319k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$8.0MEducation$2.5MScience & Tech$302kRecreation & Sports$21k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 23 grants below total $2,511,159 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,952,299 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $441,140 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+2 grants · $569k
$98,131
Median grant
9
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$319,495
CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS$250,000
NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION$202,500
FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VETERANS$153,047
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON$152,101
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$151,000
CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS$149,934
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$125,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$125,000
H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$125,000
RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE$121,252
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$98,131
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL$90,979
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$84,500
RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE$72,520
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAYO CLINIC ARIZONA: $175k → 11%University of Arizona: $125k → 15%University of Southern California: $75k → 14%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 & Science University: $125k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 12%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $91k → 14%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE: $150k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $138k → 9%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $75k → 11%University of Arizona: $125k → 15%University of Southern California: $75k → 14%University of Rochester: $125k → 14%Columbia University Medical Center: $126k → 17%MD Anderson Cancer Center: $127k → 16%OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCES 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: $319k → 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: $297k → 9%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $85k → 17%CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $250k → 9%Columbia University Medical Center: $74k → 17%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $148k → 14%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $151k → 9%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $92k → 14%CANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS: $150k → 9%Regents of the University of Michigan The University of Michigan-ORSP: $90k → 14%Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $141k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH: $141k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH: $125k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $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

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your 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

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.2M · 20 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
26

Total granted

$7.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+22%

Still filing today

55%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceScience & TechOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +27%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2017–2019 · $447k · revenue +81%
  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $270k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $175k
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $63k · revenue +16%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rhode Island Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,511

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
31/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $1,803,812 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $732,115 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $631,558 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYUTMD ANDERSON — $621,805 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $474,436 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $348,131 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $250,000 · Other+11 more — $934,305 · Other+11 moreCANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS — $399,934 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTA…THE JACKSON LABORATORY — $270,449 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYVanderbilt University Medical Center — $250,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medi…NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $202,500 · HealthNORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION F…FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VETERANS' HEALTH RESEARCH — $177,317 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING V…Rhode Island Hospital — $146,592 · HealthRhode Island HospitalH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $141,631 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTE…UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $132,618 · HealthBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE — $127,770 · HealthCITY OF HOPE — $100,000 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Health+11 more — $481,937 · Health+11 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,240,128 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $446,825 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $222,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN C…Yale University — $165,568 · EducationYale University+5 more — $221,863 · Education+5 moreNorthwestern University — $142,934 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES — $47,759 · Social ScienceCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $22,800 · Science & Tech
Other$5,796,162Health$2,530,748Education$2,296,384Recreation & Sports$142,934Social Science$47,759Science & Tech$22,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $1,803,812 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,240,128 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $446,825 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH AND BIOSTATISTICS — $399,934 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $270,449 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $250,000 over 2y, 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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCING VETERANS' HEALTH RESEARCH — $177,317 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetYale University — $165,568 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $146,592 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $142,934 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $141,631 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $132,618 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE — $127,770 over 4y, 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 budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $62,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON VA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDA — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCLEVELAND VA MEDICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLoma Linda Veterans Association for Research and Education — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDALLAS VA RESEARCH CORPORATION — $49,995 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWESTERN INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS RESEARCH — $49,944 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChicago Association for Research and Education in Science — $49,944 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetSALISBURY FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% 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 budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $22,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Hope Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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