GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

Colorectal Cancer Alliance

Washington, DC · EIN 86-0947831. Reported 47 grants totalling $4,723,066 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

40organizations funded
$47,500median reported grant
$4,723,066granted, 2021-2024
0%of grantees funded again the next year
27%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Colorectal Cancer Alliance, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 27% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% 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 $47,500. Half of what it reported fell between $35,625 and $100,000; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $1,292,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
17 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
7 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
12 grants
$250,000 Or More
2 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, TX$1,292,500112024
University of TexasHouston, TX$572,500112023
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$263,333212024
Memorial Sloan Kettering CancNew York, NY$245,000222023
City of HopeDuarte, CA$240,000112024
University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$225,000222023
Dana-Farber Research CenterBoston, MA$150,000222023
University of CaliforniaOakland, CA$150,000222023
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA$147,500112024
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$145,000112024
Adventist Healthcare IncGaithersburg, MD$100,000112024
Case Western Reserve UniversiCleveland, OH$100,000112021
Trustees of Indiana UniversityBloomington, IN$90,000212024
Yale Cancer CenterNew Haven, CT$75,000222023
University of ConnecticutStorrs, CT$72,500112023
University of Connecticut Health CtrFarmington, CT$72,500112024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$67,500112024
Go to KnowBoston, MA$50,000112022
Oregon Health & Science UniversityPortland, OR$47,500112024
Oregon Health and Science UniPortland, OR$47,500112023
Roswell Park Alliance FoundationBuffalo, NY$47,500112024
Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC$45,000112024
Hackensack Meridian Health IncEdison, NJ$45,000112024
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterDallas, TX$45,000112024
Trustees of Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN$45,000112024
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$45,000112024
University of Kentucky Research FoundationLexington, KY$45,000112024
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$45,000112024
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterNashville, TN$45,000112024
Health Research IncMenands, NY$35,625112023
Fox Chase Cancer CenterPhiladelphia, PA$25,000112021
Eskenazi HealthIndianapolis, IN$20,000112022
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterLos Angeles, CA$15,500112023
Rosewell Park Cancer CenterBuffalo, NY$11,875112023
Upmc PresbyterianPittsburgh, PA$10,833112023
Cleveland ClinicClevland, OH$10,000112023
Healing Bridge Clinic IncPeachtree Cty, GA$10,000112024
University of South FloridaTampa, FL$10,000112023
UcsfSan Francisco, CA$8,000112022
Sandhills Endoscopy CenterColumbia, SC$5,400112023

5 of 40 (12%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 40 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.

Education
6 orgs
Health Care
5 orgs
Medical Research
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20215$375,000$100,000
20225$240,500$37,500
202315$1,224,233$35,625
202422$2,883,333$46,250

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

40% of its giving went to organizations in Texas. 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.

Texas
$1.9M
Pennsylvania
$524K
New York
$485K
California
$458K
Massachusetts
$348K
Connecticut
$220K
Maryland
$168K
Indiana
$155K

Down to the city

Houston, TX
$1.9M
Philadelphia, PA
$513K
New York, NY
$390K
Boston, MA
$348K
Duarte, CA
$240K
Oakland, CA
$150K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Heart Association Inc6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsUniversity of Pittsburgh5 shared recipientsThe V Foundation5 shared recipientsThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $47,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
  4. 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 Colorectal Cancer Alliance'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 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1025 Vermont Ave Nw 1066, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 86-0947831 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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