Prevent Cancer Foundation
Alexandria, VA · EIN 52-1429544. Reported 99 grants totalling $7,416,077 to 80 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 Prevent Cancer Foundation, 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. 80 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 14% 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 $100,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $100,000; the smallest was $17,500 and the largest $200,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $595,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $295,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Basic Health International | Pittsburgh, PA | $245,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Spanish Catholic Center Inc | Washington, DC | $204,490 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute for Cancer Research | Philadelphia, PA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Childrens National | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope for Haiti Inc | Naples, FL | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington Inc | Washington, DC | $130,087 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Health Partnership Clinic | Crystal Lake, IL | $126,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Canoncito Band of Navajos Health Center Inc | Canoncito, NM | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens Research Institute | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Children's National Medical Center | Silver Spring, MD | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Community Free Clinic | Santa Rosa, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Migrant Clinicians Network Inc | Austin, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Moses-Weitzman Health System Inc | Middletown, CT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nevada Cancer Coalition | Reno, NV | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| One Community Health | Hood River, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Research Institute of Fox Chase Cancer Center | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of North Dakota | Grand Forks, ND | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Oklahoma | Norman, OK | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Dallas, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voces Coalicion De Inmunizacion Y Promociion De La Salud Inc | Guaynabo, PR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodlawn Hospital | Rochester, IN | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services | Mccall, ID | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grounds for Health Inc | Williston, VT | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Equal Hope | Chicago, IL | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| HIV Alliance | Eugene, OR | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Uicc Technical Transfer Fellowships | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Union for International Cancer Control | Switzerland | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vital Access Care Foundation | Fountain Vly, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| West Virginia Univ Foundation Inc | Morgantown, WV | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Albie Aware Inc | Sacramento, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cheeky Charity Inc | Palm Springs, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Health Project Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems | Brewer, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Erie Family Health Center Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc | Midlothian, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hmong Institute Incorporated | Madison, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| House of Transplant & Cancer | Hermosa Beach, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York Inc | Bayside, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Long Island Jewish Medical Center | Westbury, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Long Island Jewish Medical Center | New Hyde Park, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Norton Healthcare Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Panhandle Breast Health | Amarillo, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Project Renewal Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Johns Community Health | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way Worldwide | Alexandria, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arizona Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of New Mexico Albuquerque | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vax 2 Stop Cancer | Birmingham, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia Harm Reduction Coalition | Roanoke, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc | Asheville, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wyoming Breast Cancer Initiative Foundation | Cheyenne, WY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
12 of 80 (15%) 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 61 of 80 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 | 28 | $2,085,663 | $87,500 |
| 2022 | 23 | $1,571,327 | $100,000 |
| 2023 | 29 | $1,997,087 | $55,087 |
| 2024 | 19 | $1,762,000 | $100,000 |
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
16% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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 $100,000 -- 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 New York.
- 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 Prevent Cancer 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 19 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: 333 John Carlyle Street 635, Alexandria, VA, 22314.
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