California · Nonprofit
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 626 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,699,136 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,814,587). 276 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 626
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $11M
What St Baldrick's Foundation Inc does
Mission
The st. Baldrick's foundation is a volunteer and donor powered charity committed to supporting the most promising research to fund cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The st. Baldrick's foundation is the largest non-government funder of childhood cancer research grants in the u.s. These grants support every stage of research, from new discoveries to clinical trials, as well as the training of the next generation of pediatric oncology researchers. The foundation also advocates for more effective policies and increased federal funding for childhood cancer research. (continued on schedule o.)the foundation makes disease-specific grants as well as grants aimed at multiple childhood cancers. In fy 2025, grants included the following categories: research grants -- 2-year hypothesis-driven research projects. Strategic research partnership grants awards -- large 3-year grants chosen via scientific review of applications solicited specifically for disease-specific research funded by donors and charity partners.fellowships -- early career researchers completing their pediatric oncology research training.scholars -- young investigator awards to enable early career scientists to continue research. International scholars -- training for researchers from low- and middle-income countries, to then return and conduct research in their home country.…
$17,274,144 spentof which $15,470,639 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,274,144.
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 2020 to 2021, from $32M to $21M (−35%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% 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
Kathleen Ruddy
CEO
Board chair
John Mcmanus
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 126 funders to 174 funders, grant income rose $818k → $3.1M.
55 of 626 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 626 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
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
73% 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 ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 50% · 2020 20% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 12% — 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
23% of ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
53% of ST BALDRICK'S 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 $8.4M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside California, across 40 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 490 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 490 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ST BALDRICK'S 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ST BALDRICK'S 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 ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC?
- ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 626 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,699,136 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,814,587). 276 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 626 organizations giving $17,699,136 in grants to ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC, 276 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,814,587 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 626 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