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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.

$8.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$1.9M
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$33MScience & Tech$9.7MEducation$6.7MPhilanthropy$2.3MRecreation & Sports$550k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $7,888,202, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,681,352 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $793,150 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

  • $50k–250k9 grants · $967k
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.9M
$271,901
Median grant
9
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI$1,948,941
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO$900,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$900,000
ROSELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE$899,997
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$650,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$450,000
SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE$450,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES$450,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$271,901
EMORY UNIVERSITY$194,950
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$100,000
THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY$100,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$100,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

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
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38M · 39 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
39

Total granted

$38M
$10M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+21%

Still filing today

69%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +121%
  • MR
    MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +3%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    3× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +58%

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%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    one grant, 2024 · $900k · revenue +7%
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
12
City of Hope National Medical Center

To make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. please see schedule o for a continuation of our mission.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 90 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
53/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,285,014 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $2,271,506 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUN…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,792,763 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,760,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $1,225,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOL…UNIVERSITY 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+26 more: $5,838,152 · Health+26 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,764,926 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,138,941 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT S…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,725,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,425,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…Cornell University: $1,275,000 · EducationCornell UniversityDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,249,837 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,050,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…University of Chicago: $1,000,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $900,000 · EducationSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $900,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $900,000 · Education+8 more: $1,999,950 · Education+8 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…UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO: $1,549,987 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICOTHE 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 …MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $600,000 · Other+21 more: $3,541,401 · Other+21 moreENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $899,997 · PhilanthropyNorthwestern University: $700,000 · Recreation & SportsCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $25,000 · Human Services
Health$21,400,616Education$18,578,654Other$15,976,849Philanthropy$3,149,997Recreation & Sports$700,000Human Services$25,000

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: $4,285,014 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,764,926 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $2,271,506 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $2,138,941 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,792,763 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,760,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,725,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,425,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,249,837 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $1,225,000 over 4y, 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $900,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe George Washington University: $900,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $899,997 over 1y, 2.7% 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 budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetNational Foundation For Cancer Research: $500,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPITAL OF RI: $450,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE: $450,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $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 budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 90 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home