Children's Cancer Research Fund
Minneapolis, MN · EIN 41-1893645. Reported 170 grants totalling $28.8M to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Children's Cancer Research Fund, the IRS classifies it as a philanthropy and voluntarism organization (NTEE T50).
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 50% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 8% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $111,348. Half of what it reported fell between $75,000 and $175,000; the smallest was $8,954 and the largest $2,500,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $14.5M | 95 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $2,000,095 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $1,275,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $1,087,500 | 7 | 3 | 2024 |
| Various Other Entities | $777,385 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $625,001 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $625,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $625,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Childrens Oncology Group Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $550,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $375,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $375,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute | Philadelphia, PA | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clic Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | Boston, MA | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University Foundation | Richmond, VA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Baldricks Foundation Inc | Monrovia, CA | $205,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Baldrick's Foundation Inc | Monrovia, CA | $203,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lad in a Battle LLC | Medford, MA | $201,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lad in a Battle LLC | York, ME | $200,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lad in a Battle LLC | York, ME | $200,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Venn Foundation | Saint Paul, MN | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine | Cleveland, OH | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Hospital of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Research Institute | Washington, DC | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jacksonville State University | Jacksonville, AL | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia 2022 Hard to Treat D | Charlottesville, VA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Regents of the University of California | Los Angeles, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | New York, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Momcology | Ponte Verda Beach, FL | $110,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Momcology | Saint Paul, MN | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | Columbus, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seattle Childrens Foundation | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Various Other Grants 5000 and Under | $12,228 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Lee Health Foundation | Fort Myers, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
10 of 49 (20%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- University of Minnesota Foundation
PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
DR. SOHEIL MESHINCHI FOR A CLINICAL TRIAL FOCUSED ON RARE AML - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
DR. JOHN MARIS FOR PEDIATRIC NEUROBLASTOMA RESEARCH - Children's Oncology Group Foundation
INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT TO SUPPORT WORK IN HARNESSING THE POWER OF DATA TO SUPPORT RESEARCHERS - Regents of University of California San Franisco
HARD TO TREAT CANCER RESEARCH - Childhood Cancer and Leukemia International Foundation
INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT FOR POOLING EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND GENOMIC DATA
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | $8,546,220 | $250,000 |
| 2022 | 28 | $5,129,597 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 71 | $8,727,745 | $100,000 |
| 2024 | 42 | $6,364,456 | $125,000 |
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
54% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. 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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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 $111,348 -- 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 Minnesota.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Children's Cancer Research Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 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: 1650 W 82ND St 400, Minneapolis, MN, 55431.
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