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The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (Us) Ltd

Partner with scientists to accelerate research that will transform the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer through ground breaking science carried out by individual investigators, multidisciplinary teams, and early stage companies in the u.s and abroad.

$31M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$87MScience & Tech$58MEducation$18MRecreation & Sports$949k
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $19,485,041, the rows itemized in this filing. The $30,533,067 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $11,048,026 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $804k
  • $250k+21 grants · $19M
$500,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$105M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$2,750,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$2,299,837
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,568,007
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$1,384,340
THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION$1,000,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$948,007
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$750,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$711,352
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$698,007
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$698,007
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$698,007
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$570,775
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN$500,000
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $2.0M → 11%University of Pennsylvania: $12.0M → 22%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $2.1M → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $1.6M → 10%THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $2.3M → 11%Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory: $1.7M → 7%Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Inc: $1.4M → 9%NYU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.6M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $1.0M → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $2.0M → 16%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $2.0M → 14%Johns Hopkins University: $3.0M → 19%The Jackson Laboratory: $2.8M → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $1.0M → 11%THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $948k → 7%The Regents of the Univ of CA BerkeLEY: $1.5M → 10%THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES: $1.0M → 11%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC: $1.1M → 9%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $1.0M → 16%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 19%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $1.3M → 11%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $961k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH - OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $1.0M → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 19%Dana Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5.3M → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $3.4M → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $3.0M → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3.0M → 19%Dana Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1.5M → 16%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1.8M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $1.2M → 9%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $1.3M → 22%Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: $1.2M → 17%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2.8M → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1.6M → 17%Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: $6.4M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2.7M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.6M → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.3M → 17%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.3M → 17%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $1.1M → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.0M → 17%New York Genome Center Inc: $1.0M → 17%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
MN
IL
MI
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MA
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
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CO
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VA
MD
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NC
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FL

Grants abroad, by region: $11M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$8.2M · 77% · 13 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

Middle East and North Africa$1.3M · 12% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

East Asia and the Pacific$714k · 7% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$439k · 4% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$123M · 46 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
22

Total granted

$123M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+31%

Still filing today

65%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
HealthEducationScience & TechPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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
    7× · 2018–2024 · $14M · revenue +123%
  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $13M · revenue +70%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M
  • NY
    NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -36%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
6
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
7
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
8
Van Andel Research Institute

Medical research organization van andel research institute is an independent biomedical research organization committed to improving the health and enhancing the lives of current and future generations.

Health
9
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
10
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
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
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 Aspen Cancer Conference 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

51 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. 51 of the 77 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $13,697,068 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,148,016 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,955,695 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN …New York University: $5,738,745 · EducationNew York UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4,011,658 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHYale University: $3,473,182 · EducationYale UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,448,007 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STA…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,881,997 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,249,997 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,012,138 · Education+8 more: $3,727,340 · Education+8 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,421,152 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $13,484,410 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTE…THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $5,575,972 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $4,403,888 · HealthAmerican Association for Cancer Resea…CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $3,182,783 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUN…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,869,451 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $2,212,918 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,000,000 · Health+12 more: $5,954,428 · Health+12 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $8,012,012 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN …REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $3,761,017 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF …UTMD ANDERSON: $3,617,763 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $3,615,323 · OtherWeill Medical College of Corn…UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM: $3,000,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRM…OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,449,315 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVE…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,170,982 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,665,607 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $1,464,581 · Other+23 more: $13,174,637 · Other+23 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $3,250,000 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3,114,708 · Science & Tech4YOUANDME: $728,660 · Science & TechINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $273,270 · Science & Tech+1 more: $243,244 · Science & TechGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $1,336,094 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $948,825 · Recreation & Sports
Education$57,343,843Health$54,105,002Other$42,931,237Science & Tech$7,609,882Philanthropy$1,336,094Recreation & Sports$948,825

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $14,421,152 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $13,697,068 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $13,484,410 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $10,148,016 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,955,695 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,738,745 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $5,575,972 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Association for Cancer Research Inc: $4,403,888 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4,011,658 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $3,473,182 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,448,007 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $3,250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION: $3,182,783 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $3,114,708 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,881,997 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,869,451 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $2,249,997 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $2,212,918 over 6y, 10% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,012,138 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,665,607 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $1,336,094 over 3y, 19% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $983,956 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $948,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $925,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $881,352 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $796,311 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $770,611 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $750,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget4YOUANDME: $728,660 over 2y, 14% of budgetRUNX1 Foundation dba RUNX1 Research Program: $525,622 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $511,968 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $476,366 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $370,886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $327,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $273,270 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $243,244 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $202,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $183,691 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetASPEN CANCER CONFERENCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 10% 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.

  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds American Association for Cancer Research Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗

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.

American Cancer Socie…American Lung Associa…President and Fellows…American Heart Associ…Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
American Cancer Society IncGA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · American Lung Association · President and Fellows of Harvard College · American Heart Association Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (Us) Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (Us) Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research (Us) Ltd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 77 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home