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Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation
Washington, DC · EIN 26-1636099. Reported 102 grants totalling $34.1M to 54 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 Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in diseases & disorders -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE G11).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $248,081. Half of what it reported fell between $100,000 and $375,000; the smallest was $12,000 and the largest $1,755,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $3,292,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $2,600,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $2,555,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $2,267,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,832,498 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,753,210 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc | Tampa, FL | $1,751,320 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $1,675,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,415,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $1,404,159 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $1,380,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $1,090,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $1,039,647 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $750,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $600,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $510,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $410,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $375,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $375,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $375,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $374,842 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $367,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Institute for Cancer Research | Philadelphia, PA | $355,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $349,460 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $305,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $290,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA | $255,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $255,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $255,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $255,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $254,862 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Penn State University | Hershey, PA | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $170,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $149,999 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $112,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Henry Ford Health System | Detroit, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coriell Institute for Medical Research Inc | Camden, NJ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Conquer Cancer Fdn of the American Society of Clinical Oncology | Alexandria, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
27 of 54 (50%) 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.
- Yale University
2 TEAM SCIENCE AWARDS, 1 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD - The General Hospital Corporation Dba Massachusetts General Hospital
1 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD, 1 TEAM SCIENCE AWARD, 1 DERMATOLOGY FELLOWS AWARD - Columbia University Irving Medical Center
1 TEAM SCIENCE AWARD, 1 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (msk)
2 PILOT AWARD, 1 TEAM SCIENCE AWARD - Regents of the University of California Los Angeles
1 TEAM SCIENCE AWARD, 2 DERMATOLOGY FELLOWS AWARDS, 1 DERMATOLOGY JUNIOR FACULTY/CLINICAL INSTRUCTOR AWARD - Massachusetts General Hospital (mass General)
1 NEXT STEPS: ADVANCING DRUG DISCOVERY TO IDENTIFY NEW THERAPIES AWARD, 1 TEAM SCIENCE AWARD
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 54 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 | 27 | $6,629,937 | $225,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $9,324,708 | $255,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $6,175,342 | $254,931 |
| 2024 | 29 | $11.9M | $255,000 |
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 Massachusetts. 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 $248,081 -- 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 Massachusetts.
- 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 Melanoma Research Alliance Foundation'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 23 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: 730 15TH St Nw 4TH Floor, Washington, DC, 20005.
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