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The Sass-Arena Foundation for Medical Research Inc(Fka Sass Fdn for Med Res)

To promote a better understanding of cancer and related life threatening diseases, to educate physicians and the public on the therapies and treatments, and to fund research aimed at combating these diseases.

$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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$1.5MScience & Tech$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $25,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,000 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.
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES$25,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $25k → 10%LEAN ON ME BREAST CANCER NETWORK: $5k → 6%COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $10k → 7%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $10k → 9%ITHACA COLLEGE: $1k → 16%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $55k → 17%THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 20%IMEDEX LLC: $10k → 13%FPID: $25k → 10%LEAN ON ME BREAST CANCER NETWORK: $5k → 6%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $55k → 17%IMEDEX LLC: $10k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $10k → 10%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $30k → 17%IMEDEX LLC: $10k → 13%FPID: $10k → 10%STONY BROOK FOUNDATION: $12k → 7%THE HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $297k → 17%IMEDEX LLC: $10k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $10k → 10%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50k → 17%IMEDEX LLC: $10k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $10k → 10%THE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%IMEDEX LLC: $10k → 13%FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $10k → 10%THE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%THE HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $289k → 17%THE HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $200k → 17%THE HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $186k → 17%THE HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $125k → 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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$1.4M
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+26%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationMembership BenefitScience & TechOther
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

  • HC
    HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +29% · 34% of their budget
  • NY
    NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VEBA TRUST
    2× · 2020–2021 · $110k · revenue +71%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +70%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -63%
  • TB
    THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +31%
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
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
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
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
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
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
7
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
8
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
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
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
11
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; the most unlike its peers is Lean On Me Breast Cancer Network in. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $1,097,173 · OtherHAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATIONIMEDEX LLC: $60,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $100,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR…MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN…NYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $30,000 · HealthNYU LANGONE HE…LEAN ON ME BREAST CANCER NETWORK IN: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VEBA TRUST: $110,000 · Membership BenefitSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Other$1,167,173Health$200,000Membership Benefit$110,000Education$51,000Science & Tech$10,000

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 budgetHAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA FOUNDATION: $1,097,173 over 5y, 34% of budgetNEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE VEBA TRUST: $110,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PRIMARY IMMUNODEFICIENCY DISEASES: $100,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC: $39,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHEMOTHERAPY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,000 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Sass-Arena Foundation for Medical Research Inc(Fka Sass Fdn for Med Res) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sass-Arena Foundation for Medical Research Inc(Fka Sass Fdn for Med Res). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 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 · 0–50%
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 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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