Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
American Association for Cancer Research Inc
American Association for Cancer Research Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,187,469 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($177,337,372). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
American Association for Cancer Research Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Matthew Hill Foundation Incportfolio match
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of American Association for Cancer Research Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 58 funders, grant income fell $31M → $14M.
27 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.3M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Pelotonia). These are real filings, and they are not money American Association for Cancer Research Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of American Association for Cancer Research Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
American Association for Cancer Research Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund American Association for Cancer Research Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 88% · 2021 82% · 2022 72% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of American Association for Cancer Research Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of American Association for Cancer Research Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $24M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 24 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $179M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 133 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 89 organizations that share your funders
- Matthew Hill Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Medical Research Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Society of Clinical Oncology Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tap Cancer Out Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groh George W Tr FBO Med Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health First - America's Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Advanced Medical Technology Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beyourpossible Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Pharmacopeial Conventionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evelyn C Carter Foundation Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GO2 For Lung Cancerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding American Association for Cancer Research Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.9M
- Department of Energy$6k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like American Association for Cancer Research Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Association for Cancer Research · exempt
- American Association for Cancer Research · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for American Association for Cancer Research Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds American Association for Cancer Research Inc?
- American Association for Cancer Research Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $202,187,469 to it, the largest being ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ($177,337,372). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does American Association for Cancer Research Inc have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $202,187,469 in grants to American Association for Cancer Research Inc, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of American Association for Cancer Research Inc?
- ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $177,337,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like American Association for Cancer Research Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 133funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing