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AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH (Virginia) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,806,196 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($782,515). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH is better cushioned than half of the 4,579 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,579 health nonprofits $10M–$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.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- The Morris I Franco Foundationportfolio match
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio 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.
80% of AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $190k → $355k.
19 of 159 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 159 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 INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 33% · 2019 30% · 2020 18% · 2021 19% · 2022 29% · 2023 27% — 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
39% of AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
68% of AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH'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 $901k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 33 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M 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 159 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 270 organizations that share your funders
- The Morris I Franco Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard H Yearick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Birks Works Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dr A Everett and Ruth E Rosen Foundation Inc c/o Dr Rosenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Feuerring Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chordoma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nemet Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- SBLI Legacy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yen Family Charitable Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bill Weeks Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beyourpossible Incportfolio 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 INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40 on record.
- Other General Supplies$40
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 INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- World Cancer Research Fund · exempt
- Wcrf (Trading) Ltd · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
- Perpetual Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH?
- AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH (Virginia) receives grants from 159 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,806,196 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($782,515). 93 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 159 organizations giving $2,806,196 in grants to AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH, 93 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $782,515 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 159funders 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