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The Kidney Cancer Association

THE KIDNEY CANCER ASSOCIATION is a global community dedicated to serving and empowering patients, and leading change through advocacy, research, and education in order to be the universal leader in finding the cure for kidney cancer.

$388k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$75k
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$4.6MEducation$575kScience & Tech$575k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $375,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $387,698 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,698 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.
$75,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$75,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$75,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$75,000
H LEE MOFFIT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE$75,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$75,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $500k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FOX CHASE CANCER CENT: $150k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO: $113k → 11%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $500k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $75k → 17%Univ of Texas Medical Center: $20k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $575k → 16%H LEE MOFFIT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $75k → 13%Patient Resource LLC: $122k → 5%DUKE UNIVERSITY DEPT OF MEDICINE RESEARCH ADMINISTRATIONS: $75k → 11%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $75k → 14%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $75k → 9%Conquer Cancer Foundation: $75k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $500k → 16%Institute for Cancer Research: $50k → 22%Memorial Sloan-Kettering: $25k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $75k → 16%MOFFITT CANCER CENTER: $75k → 13%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $75k → 9%CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION: $75k → 9%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $75k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $150k → 16%Institute for Cancer Research: $25k → 22%Conquer Cancer Foundation: $75k → 9%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $75k → 16%THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 22%Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: $50k → 16%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

WA
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
KS
NC
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 8 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$3.7M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+44%

Still filing today

75%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +123%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    4× · 2017–2023 · $250k · revenue +121%
  • CC
    CONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $225k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +45%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • PR
    Patient Resource LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $122k
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
6
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
7
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
8
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
9
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
10
Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries

Sibley memorial hospital in washington, d.c., a member of johns hopkins medicine, has a distinguished history of serving the community since its founding in 1890. as a not-for-profit, full-service community hospital, sibley offers…

Health
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
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 Health Research Inc. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,275,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $225,000 · HealthCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY…The Institute For Cancer Research: $225,000 · HealthThe Institute For Cancer ResearchVanderbilt University Medical Center: $150,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center+5 more: $375,000 · Health+5 moreUTMD ANDERSON: $1,325,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $500,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAPatient Resource LLC: $122,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $112,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $95,000 · Other+2 more: $150,000 · Other+2 moreTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON …Yale University: $150,000 · EducationYale UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNI…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYBROWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Health$2,500,000Other$2,304,500Education$875,000Community Improvement$75,000

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $225,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $75,000 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
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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 Kidney Cancer Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kidney Cancer Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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