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The Osteosarcoma Institute

The mission of THE OSTEOSARCOMA INSTITUTE is to dramatically increase treatment options and survival rates in osteosarcoma patients through identifying and funding the most promising and breakthrough osteosarcoma clinical trials and science.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$307k
Largest
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 FY20192024.

Health$4.3MEducation$855kYouth Development$100k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $1,192,911 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,501,244 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $308,333 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

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $886k
  • $250k+1 grant · $307k
$125,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$306,500
UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN FRANCISCO$175,000
REGENTS OF EMORY UNIVERSITY$125,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL$125,000
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$125,000
REGENTS OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$125,000
REGENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY$110,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$101,411
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HONORHEALTH: $97k → 11%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $355k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $200k → 11%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $75k → 11%REGENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $110k → 7%WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL: $125k → 17%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $250k → 16%REGENTS OF EMORY UNIVERSITY: $250k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $250k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 17%REGENTS OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $307k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $101k → 11%REGENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $55k → 7%ROCKEFELLER: $20k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $126k → 16%REGENTS OF EMORY UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125k → 15%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVER: $250k → 17%REGENTS OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $125k → 14%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $225k → 16%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $100k → 11%BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $125k → 16%RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125k → 15%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $178k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $124k → 16%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $165k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $55k → 16%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
AZ
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $408k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$283k · 69% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANT

United Kingdom$125k · 31% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANT

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. 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.4M · 8 repeat orgs$558k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$4.4M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-14%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +73%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +39%
  • EU
    Emory University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HF
    HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $97k · revenue -30%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +14%
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -14%

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
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
2
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
3
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
4
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
7
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
8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
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
10
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 16 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UTMD ANDERSON — $700,314 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $560,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCONATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC — $499,800 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $300,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $101,411 · Other+1 more — $15,279 · OtherCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSIT…Emory University — $375,000 · EducationEmory UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $165,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE L…Baylor College of Medicine — $125,000 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineCornell University — $125,000 · EducationCornell UniversityUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $74,927 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH+1 more — $20,000 · EducationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,229,973 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute …HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $96,828 · HealthHONORHEALTH FOUNDATIONNorthwestern University — $250,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,176,804Education$1,384,927Health$1,326,801Recreation & Sports$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,229,973 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $165,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION — $96,828 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $74,927 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $20,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Osteosarcoma Institute 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Osteosarcoma Institute?

Find your warmest path to The Osteosarcoma Institute 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 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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