Indiana · Nonprofit
HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC
HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,119,853 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($1,985,730). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Hoosier Cancer Research Network Inc does
Mission
To form unparalleled relationships between academic, community, pharmaceutical, and biotech collaborators with the goal of advancing cancer research, education, and patient advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Investigator-initiated studies - these are studies created by non-industry physicians, most commonly for us from academic institutions but possibly also from community sites, and those physicians serve as sponsor-investigators. When we conduct/manage these studies, we preserve rights for us and our member institutions to publish and access data for the public benefit consistent with our tax exempt purpose. These studies may be funded by industry, but industry is not the sponsor. These studies may also be funded by philanthropic organizations, and in some cases public and private universities. The sponsor investigator owns the protocol and data in an iit and industry gets to use the data.
$12,237,978 spent$13,734,404 earned by the program90% of program spendingIndustry-sponsored studies - on rare occasions, we get involved in industry-sponsored studies, meaning a study initiated and conducted by a pharmaceutical company. When we work on those studies, we preserve rights for us and our sites to publish and access data for the publicbenefit consistent with our tax-exempt purpose. Pharma funds these studies and also acts as the sponsor. Pharma owns the protocol and data in these studies, and sites (and we) get to use the data for publication purposes.
$1,021,131 spent$848,432 earned by the program7% of program spendingBtcrc administration - hcrn is the administrative headquarters of the big ten cancer reasearch consortium (btcrc). Each member institution pays in dues which support consortium operations including the btcrc chief scientific officer, working group coordination, loi development, event management, and overhead. The btcrc is led by a steering committee composed of one researcher from each member institution.
$409,012 spent$387,500 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,668,121.
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 2022 to 2023, from $10M to $14M (+32%).
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 0% · 2021 5% · 2022 7% · 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Brian Stemme
CEO
Board chair
Chris Fausel Pharmd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $120k → $1.4M.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK 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
HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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 HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 78% — 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
HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,843 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Indiana University · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC?
- HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,119,853 to it, the largest being JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ($1,985,730). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,119,853 in grants to HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC?
- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,985,730 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOOSIER CANCER RESEARCH NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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