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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 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, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $1,192,911, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,501,244 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $308,333 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

  • $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
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$125,000
REGENTS OF NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$125,000
REGENTS OF EMORY UNIVERSITY$125,000
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL$125,000
REGENTS OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY$110,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$101,411
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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
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

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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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
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× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +95%
  • 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%
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
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
Nova Southeastern University Inc

The mission of Nova Southeastern University-a selective, doctoral research university-is to deliver academic programs in a dynamic, innovative environment. We foster academic excellence, leadership, integrity (continued on Schedule O) and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornell University; 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 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. 10 of the 16 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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: $1,229,973 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Osteosarcoma Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Osteosarcoma Institute. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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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