Sarcoma Foundation of America
Damascus, MD · EIN 52-2275294. Reported 56 grants totalling $3,034,498 to 36 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 Sarcoma Foundation of America, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for arts & culture (NTEE A12).
- How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 31% 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 $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $7,415 and the largest $250,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Univ of Tx MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $350,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $319,122 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $205,122 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | Tempe, AZ | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beckman Research Institute | Duarte, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hudson-Alpha Institute for Biotechnology | Huntsville, AL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Indiana University | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York Road Runners Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Dominion University Research Foundation | Norfolk, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The National Cancer Institute | Bethesda, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The National Cancer Institute | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Massachusetts Chan Medical | Worcester, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Tennessee Health Science Center | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| William Marsh Rice University | Houston, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| U C San Diego Foundation | La Jolla, CA | $30,254 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Association of Community Cancer Centers | Rockville, MD | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
10 of 36 (28%) 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.
- Cleveland Clinic Philanthropy Institute
TO SUPPORT SARCOMA RESEARCH - Cleveland Clinic Foundation
RICHARD AND VALERIE ARONSOHN MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD - Old Dominion University Research Foundation
JOHN O'BRIEN MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD - Johns Hopkins University
2023 GIVING TUESDAY DONORS RESEARCH AWARD - Univ of Tx MD Anderson Cancer Center
STEVEN VANOVER MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD - The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles
TECHNOBLADE MEMORIAL RESEARCH AWARD
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 36 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 | 16 | $973,792 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 14 | $709,423 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $824,248 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 11 | $527,035 | $50,000 |
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 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.
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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 $50,000 -- 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 Texas.
- 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 Sarcoma Foundation of America'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 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 11 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: 9899 Main Street 204, Damascus, MD, 20872.
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