New York · Nonprofit
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 595 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,129,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,809,004). 319 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 595
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $79M
What Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation does
Mission
The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. See schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education and empowerment, and advancing the best science to transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. The foundation focuses on translating our understanding of the underlying biology of pancreatic cancer into clinical applications to change, extend, and ultimately save patients' lives. In fy25, the foundation awarded $18 million to fuel cutting-edge pancreatic cancer research, including 10 new grants to researchers at seven leading institutions. Research efforts are concentrated on three key pillars: early detection and interception, drug development, and personalized medicine.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research program: the lustgarten foundation's mission is to advance the best science to transform pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. 2025 marked the foundation's 27th year of driving pioneering pancreatic cancer research breakthroughs, accelerating progress faster than ever before and providing a more hopeful future for all patients. See schedule o.
$19,810,727 spentof which $18,049,864 as grants91% of program spendingPublic education and information program: the lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world, funding preeminent pancreatic cancer researchers, driving the pursuit of bold and innovative science toward earlier detection and better treatments, and transforming pancreatic cancer into a curable disease. The foundation funds research where creative risks yield high rewards to accelerate and expand life-saving treatment options. We believe time is everything to patients and their families, and that community is power. Lustgarten programs and events provide people affected by pancreatic cancer a voice and a place to create hope, together. See schedule o.
$1,235,976 spent6% of program spendingProfessional education program: professional education focused on the foundation's scientific leadership conducting high-level meetings with funded scientists and directors of the labs program sites and collaborating organizations. Additionally, the lustgarten foundation provided support for the aacr special conference in pancreas cancer research, aacr-lustgarten foundation-mark foundation joint workshop on solving the early stage diagnosis for ralcitrant cancers, the gordon research conference on pancreatic diseases, the international women's day symposium at the johns hopkins university school of medicine, and the foundation's scientific advisory board annual meeting. See schedule o.
$773,834 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,820,537.
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 2021 to 2022, from $97M to $79M (−19%).
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.
93% of MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Linda Tantawi
CEO
Board chair
Andrew Lustgarten
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 107 funders to 227 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $8.3M.
59 of 595 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 595 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
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
48% 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 MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 18% · 2019 12% · 2020 20% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 19% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 35 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION?
- MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 595 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,129,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,809,004). 319 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 595 organizations giving $34,129,567 in grants to MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION, 319 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,809,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 595 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing