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The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating a cure for each and every multiple myeloma patient.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.1M
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$39MEducation$2.1MScience & Tech$825k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $2,166,942, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,576,906 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,409,964 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–50k2 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$157,300
Median grant
7
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$1,150,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$426,025
BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE$171,210
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$157,300
BETH ISREAL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$136,418
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$60,000
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY$35,989
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$30,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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: $2.8M → 16%MAYO CLINIC - ROCHESTER: $406k → 9%UCSF MYELOMA RESEARCH PROGRAM: $150k → 10%CITY OF HOPE: $370k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.3M → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $426k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $807k → 21%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $737k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS: $1.5M → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $2.5M → 16%CITY OF HOPE: $285k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.2M → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $350k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $188k → 21%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $613k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS: $750k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.4M → 16%BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CITY OF HOPE: $171k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $451k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $350k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $164k → 21%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $563k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS: $750k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.3M → 16%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $316k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $350k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $157k → 21%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $553k → 14%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS: $444k → 19%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 16%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $420k → 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.1M → 16%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $392k → 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 16%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $144k → 14%BETH ISREAL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $1.6M → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $974k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $861k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $632k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $613k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2.0M → 17%BETH ISREAL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $270k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1.9M → 17%BETH ISREAL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $152k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1.1M → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $363k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $223k → 17%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $164k → 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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $1.2M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 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)$1.1M · 93% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: MAC GRANT · FELLOWS

North America (Canada and Mexico)$60k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FELLOWS

Sub-Saharan Africa$30k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: FELLOWS

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$42M · 30 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
6

Total granted

$42M
$418k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+51%

Still filing today

47%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $663k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +162%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +58%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +51%
  • TM
    TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER GROUP RETURNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +71%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
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
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
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
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
5
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
6
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
7
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
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
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
10
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
11
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ohio State University Research 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

26 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. 26 of the 42 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $11,236,408 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,277,497 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,476,930 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERCITY OF HOPE: $1,115,000 · Health+9 more: $2,351,471 · Health+9 moreICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $6,026,663 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIEmory University: $3,533,110 · EducationEmory UniversityJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,443,890 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,598,548 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYUniversity of Chicago: $608,996 · Education+4 more: $680,000 · EducationUTMD ANDERSON: $1,050,000 · OtherUTMD ANDERS…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $593,261 · OtherUNIVERSITY …THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $423,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERS…OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $374,500 · OtherOHIO STATE …Sarah Cannon Research Institute: $275,500 · OtherSarah Canno…UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES: $245,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY …THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTH DBA ATRIUM HEALTH: $242,000 · OtherTHE CHARLOT…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $227,000 · Other+11 more: $915,989 · Other+11 moreNMDP FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Health$23,457,306Education$15,891,207Other$4,346,250Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $11,236,408 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $6,026,663 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $5,277,497 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $3,533,110 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,476,930 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,443,890 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,598,548 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $1,115,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $664,507 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $608,996 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER HOSPITAL: $429,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $374,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetHMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION: $372,729 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE: $171,210 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor Research Institute: $77,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER GROUP RETURN: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC: $67,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $67,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $35,989 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds M D ANDERSON SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HMH HOSPITALS CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds Baylor Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER GROUP RETURN ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗

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.

Mayo ClinicVanderbilt University…University of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…Blood Cancer United I…Amyotrophic Lateral S…Yale UniversityMayo Clinic Group Ret…American Cancer Socie…Johns Hopkins Univers…Alliance for Clinical…The Children's Oncolo…
Mayo ClinicMN21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mayo Clinic · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Blood Cancer United Inc · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn · Yale University · Mayo Clinic Group Return · American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation · The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • 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
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 42 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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