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ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,401 to it, the largest being THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ($925,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$25M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$34M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Ecog Research & Education Foundation Inc does

Program

  1. Subcontracted research services - the foundation disburses funds received through grants, to assist the u.s. National cancer institute-sponsored and approved research activities of other nonprofit organizations by contracting for the provision of services to enable cancer clinical trials to be completed more quickly, be performed more efficiently, and include an enlarged scope of scientific activities.

    $23,350,611 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($24M) Expenses 100 ($22M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 114 ($27M) Expenses 122 ($27M) Net assets 103 ($33M)2019 Revenue 142 ($34M) Expenses 154 ($33M) Net assets 105 ($34M)2020 Revenue 136 ($32M) Expenses 146 ($32M) Net assets 107 ($34M)2021 Revenue 139 ($33M) Expenses 148 ($32M) Net assets 116 ($37M)2022 Revenue 74 ($18M) Expenses 84 ($18M) Net assets 106 ($34M)2023 Revenue 81 ($19M) Expenses 93 ($20M) Net assets 106 ($34M)2024 Revenue 66 ($16M) Expenses 85 ($19M) Net assets 104 ($33M)2025 Revenue 104 ($25M) Expenses 121 ($26M) Net assets 104 ($34M)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (121)Net assets (104)

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 $79M to $91M (+15%).

$72M
$72M
$79M
$91M
$102M
$97M
$91M
$88M
$89M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Peter J O'Dwyer Md

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

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Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·10100000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $350k → $101k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'23
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total
funders
2
1
1
3
1
1

From the IRS filings of ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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

ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,415,401 to it, the largest being THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ($925,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,415,401 in grants to ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $925,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ECOG RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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