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The Max Cure Foundation Inc

The foundation uses contributions to fund research for pediatric cancer drugs, including underwriting a lab at memorial sloan-kettering cancer center, and also financially supports low income families and military families who have children with cancer.

$98k
Granted FY2022
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Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
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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 2022.

Health$337kReligion$8k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $80,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $97,877 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,877 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.
$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PREP 4 GOLD$80,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSTIY OF MASSACHUSSETS LOWELL: $11k → 8%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $77k → 17%CLEAN AND HEALTHY NEW YORK: $5k → 20%CHILDREN'S CANCER THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $8k → 8%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $11k → 13%HANDS ON SPORTS FOUNDATION: $18k → 17%ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO: $50k → 14%TEMPLE B'NAI ABRAHAM: $8k → 16%TEAM MATHIAS: $5k → 4%PREP 4 GOLD: $80k → 6%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25k → 17%CONNOR CURES FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%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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NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
VA
GA
TX
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 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.

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
3
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
4
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
5
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
6
Cog Research Foundation Llc

Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…

Health
7
CancerFree Kids

CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…

Health
8
Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute Inc

The NCHRI directly supports the NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ("NCH") mission to provide hope through advanced care for our children and families. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

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9
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Inst Lifetime Cancer Screening Ctr Inc

To promote and support h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute, inc (institute), h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital (hospital), and h. lee moffitt cancer foundation by employing physicians who staff…

Health
10
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to accelerate the development of breakthrough immune therapies to turn all cancers into curable diseases.

Health
11
Arkansas Children's Research Institute

The vision of arkansas children's research institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. in support of this vision, arkansas children's research institute aims…

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12
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $102,150 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERPREP4GOLD: $80,000 · HealthPREP4GOLDAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $50,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 · Health+1 more: $5,199 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF T…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $10,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSA…Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $7,500 · OtherChildrens Cancer Th…TEMPLE BNAI ABRAHAM: $7,500 · OtherTEMPLE BNAI ABRAHAMHands On Sports Foundation Inc: $17,874 · Recreation & SportsTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $14,681 · EducationCLEAN AND HEALTHY NEW YORK: $5,000 · Environment
Health$247,849Other$59,000Recreation & Sports$17,874Education$14,681Environment$5,000

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 budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $102,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP4GOLD: $80,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHands On Sports Foundation Inc: $17,874 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $14,681 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM MATHIAS: $5,199 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCLEAN AND HEALTHY NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Max Cure Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Max Cure Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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How do I get to The Max Cure Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Max Cure Foundation Inc 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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $15k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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