Minnesota · Nonprofit
ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND
ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,521 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Arnold S Leonard Cancer Research Fund does
Mission
To engage in, advance, support, promote, raise money for and administer research and educational activities in genetic engineering to boost the immune system to fight cancer solely through the non-profit corporation, minnesota medical foundation, tax id 41-6027707.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Providing funds and grants to the university of minnesota foundation and directly to the genetic research lab at the university of minnesota.
$50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants46% of program spendingPrograms to raise funds that are used directly to support the genetic research at the university of minnesota foundation through fund 8203.
$59,826 spent54% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $109,826.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $124k to $87k (−30%).
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.
100% of ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Dr Arnold S Leonard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $10k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 99% · 2022 86% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
95% of ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Against its field
ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND?
- ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,521 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($65,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $68,521 in grants to ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARNOLD S LEONARD CANCER RESEARCH FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 6 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing