· Private foundation
Uncle Kory Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $50,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| REGENTS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $33,584 |
| THE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $25,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $16,416 |
| BRAIN TUMOR EPIDEMIOLOGY CONSORTIUM | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of Uncle Kory Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +51%
American Brain Tumor Association2× · 2021–2022 · $59k · revenue +19%- CBCENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- DGDAVID GEFFIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UCLAone grant, 2017 · $150k
- TRTHE REGENTS OF UCSFone grant, 2022 · $50k
- SFSOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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.
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…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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,…
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.
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…
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.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
The purposes of the laboratory are scientific, medical, charitable, and educational. our mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the biomedical community.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Charles r. drew university of medicine and science is a private non-profit student-centered university that is committed to cultivating diverse health professional leaders who are dedicated to social justice and health equity for…
To make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. please see schedule o for a continuation of our mission.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (US) LTD ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL BRAIN TUMOR REGISTRY OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Uncle Kory Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uncle Kory Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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