Cancer Research Institute Inc
New York, NY · EIN 13-1837442. Reported 144 grants totalling $83.5M to 63 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Cancer Research Institute Inc, the IRS classifies it under medical research rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE H300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 72% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $243,000. Half of what it reported fell between $175,500 and $575,499; the smallest was $6,361 and the largest $9,002,197. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $9,002,197 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $7,236,747 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $6,566,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy | San Francisco, CA | $6,303,232 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $3,916,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $3,813,736 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $3,767,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $3,307,195 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $3,051,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $2,874,778 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $2,658,496 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $2,540,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc | Tampa, FL | $2,036,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Sage Bionetworks | Seattle, WA | $1,867,282 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $1,668,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $1,554,350 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $1,499,600 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $1,450,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| New York University Medical Center | New York, NY | $1,203,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $991,161 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $983,554 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $890,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $874,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $786,350 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $702,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $686,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $645,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies | La Jolla, CA | $575,300 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $574,600 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | $545,850 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $486,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| La Jolla Institute for Immunology | La Jolla, CA | $445,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | Bethesda, MD | $429,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $405,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $399,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $386,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $386,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| American Association for Cancer Research | Philadelphia, PA | $325,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Louis University | Saint Louis, MO | $299,786 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Surge | Cambridge, MA | $289,503 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $243,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| J David Gladstone Institutes | San Francisco, CA | $243,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $243,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School | Worcester, MA | $243,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | $202,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $200,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Cancer Institute | Bethesda, MD | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Overt | New York, NY | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The J David Gladstone Institutes | San Francisco, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Connecticut School of Medicine | Farmington, CT | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $182,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $182,700 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cartography Biosciences | Foster City, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cell Infinity Bio | West Haven, CT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | Charlottesvle, VA | $80,942 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Remplir Bio | Pittsburgh, PA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
41 of 63 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 27 | $21.5M | $351,000 |
| 2021 | 39 | $21.2M | $200,000 |
| 2022 | 45 | $25.1M | $224,300 |
| 2023 | 33 | $15.8M | $243,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
22% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $243,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cancer Research Institute Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 29 Broadway 4TH Floor, New York, NY, 10006.
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