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The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc

Ovarian cancer research alliance (ocra) is committed to preventing, developing better treatments for and ultimately curing ovarian and related gynecologic cancers through innovative research, raising awareness and ensuring the best care possible through advocacy and support for patients and families.

$6.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$33MScience & Tech$9.7MEducation$6.7MPhilanthropy$2.3MRecreation & Sports$550k
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $5,673,064 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,428,064 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $755,000 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 · $974k
  • $250k+7 grants · $4.7M
$449,803
Median grant
11
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$900,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$900,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (DBA BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$899,439
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$550,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$549,837
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$450,000
H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC$449,803
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$200,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT HOUSTON$199,999
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$199,987
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO$99,999
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$99,000
SOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY$75,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $25k → 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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $755k 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.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$720k · 95% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

North America (Canada and Mexico)$35k · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: RESEARCH

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 35 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
38

Total granted

$31M
$8.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+29%

Still filing today

74%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $3.6M · revenue +121%
  • MR
    MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +3%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $900k · revenue +59%
  • UO
    University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
    one grant, 2023 · $888k

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
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
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
3
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
4
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
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
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
7
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
8
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
9
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
10
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
11
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
12
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for University Hospital a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Sue DiNapoli Ovarian Cancer Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%52%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%71%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,480

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

59 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 85 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
51/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $3,635,014 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $2,174,093 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDAT…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $1,792,763 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,660,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $1,125,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGYUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $974,864 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $899,439 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $828,878 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH INC — $800,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $725,000 · Health+25 more — $5,288,152 · Health+25 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,764,926 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PE…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,725,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,350,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LEL…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,250,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,149,837 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,050,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERS…University of Chicago — $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $900,000 · EducationSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEAR…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $900,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard…The George Washington University — $900,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $500,000 · Education+7 more — $1,420,000 · Education+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS — $2,095,004 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASUTMD ANDERSON — $2,048,837 · OtherUTMD ANDERSONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $1,770,063 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF C…THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,333,314 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $1,199,929 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES — $950,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MED…University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center — $888,314 · OtherUniversity of Oklahoma Health …UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO — $649,987 · Other+21 more — $3,219,500 · Other+21 moreENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University — $700,000 · Recreation & SportsCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY — $25,000 · Human Services
Health$19,903,203Education$14,909,763Other$14,154,948Philanthropy$2,250,000Recreation & Sports$700,000Human Services$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $3,635,014 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $2,764,926 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION — $2,250,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $2,174,093 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $1,792,763 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,725,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,660,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $1,350,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,149,837 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $1,125,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,050,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $974,864 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $900,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $900,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $899,439 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $828,878 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC — $800,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $725,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $599,803 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research — $525,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGLOBAL COALITION FOR ADAPTIVE RESEARCH INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNational Foundation For Cancer Research — $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $450,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI — $450,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $375,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL A NEW JERSEY NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CANCER CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $68,182 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE HOSPITAL INC — $65,266 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital — $60,000 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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Cancer Socie…American Heart Associ…Yale UniversityUniversity of Pittsbu…The Trustees of Colum…American Lung Associa…Vanderbilt University…Mayo ClinicJohns Hopkins Univers…The Children's Hospit…Washington UniversityEmory University
American Cancer Society IncGA35.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Cancer Society Inc · American Heart Association Inc · Yale University · University of Pittsburgh · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · American Lung Association · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Mayo Clinic · Johns Hopkins University · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Washington University · Emory University

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% 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
  • Holy Name Medical Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report 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

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.

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 85 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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