Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC
THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,585,813 to it, the largest being ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ($37,835,460). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $45M
- Net assets
- $18M
What The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Inc does
Mission
The children's oncology group foundation, inc. (the foundation), helps support the research of the children's oncology group (cog), which is the world's largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The children's oncology group foundation, inc. Enables cog's leadership, comprised of a team of doctors, nurses, laboratory scientists and other allied professionals, the ability to direct the resources raised for childhood cancer research to the areas of highest need and opportunity. The foundation allows philanthropic funds from individual supporters and organizations to go directly to cog to fund its much needed research. In an era of rapid scientific discovery, this direct link allows cog researchers to respond quickly to new discoveries with the greatest potential to benefit children with cancer. The children's oncology group has over 50 active clinical trials open at any given time. These trials include front-line treatment for many types of childhood cancers, studies aimed at determining the underlying biology of these diseases, and trials involving new and emerging treatments, supportive care, and survivorship. The children's oncology group research has turned children's cancer from a virtually incurable disease 50 years ago to one with a combined 5-year survival rate of 80% today. Our goal is to cure all children and adolescents with cancer, reduce the short and long-term…
$8,915,964 spentof which $7,587,890 as grants$14,950 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,915,964.
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 2018 to 2019, from $18M to $21M (+15%).
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.
97% of THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $6.5M → $2.5M.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 88% · 2019 96% · 2020 77% · 2021 35% · 2022 91% · 2023 84% — diversifying over time.
“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
30% of THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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 THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cog Research Foundation LLC · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC?
- THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,585,813 to it, the largest being ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ($37,835,460). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $44,585,813 in grants to THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP FOUNDATION INC?
- ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,835,460 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY GROUP 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 36 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