Massachusetts · Nonprofit
PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC
PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,241 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($387,773). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2019
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $555k
- Net assets
- $0
What Pediatric Low Grade Astrocytoma Foundation Inc does
Mission
A kids' brain tumor cure foundation's mission is to accelerate the pace of promising scientific research for the most common forms of pediatric brain cancer.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
No activity, all donations given to the pediatric brain tumor foundation of us
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.7M to $156k (−96%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $225k → $25k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA 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
PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 64% · 2019 99% · 2020 77% — 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
100% of PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $553k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA 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 PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC?
- PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $555,241 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($387,773). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $555,241 in grants to PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $387,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEDIATRIC LOW GRADE ASTROCYTOMA FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 7 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