Funding search · EIN 131788491 · Grantmaking charity · Atlanta, GA

American Cancer Society

$597.1M
in grants paid: 2,566
grants: 1,683
recipients: 2022–2024
filing years

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Recent grants

The 100 largest recent grants from this foundation’s filings, newest year first.

$38.1M
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
$9.8M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Somerville, MA · 2024
Support/Research
$9.6M
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
$6.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai · New York, NY · 2024
Support/Research
$4.6M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
Extramural Research
$4.5M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Extramural Research
$4.2M
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Extramural Research
$4.1M
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Support/Research
$3.7M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$3.5M
Ut Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2024
Extramural Research
$3.2M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Support/Research
$3.2M
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2024
Support/Research
$3.2M
Medical University of South Carolina · Charleston, SC · 2024
Support/Research
$3.0M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Extramural Research
$3.0M
U of Tx Md Anderson Cancer Ctr · Houston, TX · 2024
Extramural Research
$2.6M
Trustees of the University of Penn · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Support/Research
$2.5M
Duke University Health System · Durham, NC · 2024
Support/Research
$2.5M
University of Utah Research Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2024
Extramural Research
$2.4M
University of Texas Health Science Center · San Antonio, TX · 2024
Support/Research
$2.3M
Regents of the University of California at Irvine · Irvine, CA · 2024
Extramural Research
$2.0M
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Support/Research
$2.0M
Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Support/Research
$1.9M
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.8M
Weill Med College of Cornell U · New York, NY · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.8M
Univ of Nebraska Medical Center · Omaha, NE · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.8M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support/Research
$1.8M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.6M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support/Research
$1.6M
Sloan - Kettering Institute for · New York, NY · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.5M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.5M
Patient Advocate Foundation · Hampton, VA · 2024
Patient Support
$1.5M
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute · Tampa, FL · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.4M
Regents of the Univ of Minn · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.4M
Institute for Cancer Research · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.3M
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.3M
Univ of Maryland Baltimore · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.3M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.3M
Trustees of Boston Univ Bumc · Boston, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.2M
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.1M
Baylor College of Medicine Healthcare · Houston, TX · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.1M
Board of Regents On the Univ · Madison, WI · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.1M
University of Kentucky Research Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Support/Research
$1.1M
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winston Salem, NC · 2024
Support/Research
$1.0M
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2024
Support/Research
$1.0M
American College of Surgeons · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support/Research
$1.0M
Trustees of Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.0M
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.0M
Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope · Duarte, CA · 2024
Support/Research
$987,250
University of Illinois · Urbana, IL · 2024
Support/Research
$961,462
University of Illinois Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Extramural Research
$960,000
Purdue University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Extramural Research
$959,000
St Louis University · Saint Louis, MO · 2024
Extramural Research
$946,500
The George Washington University · Ashburn, VA · 2024
Support/Research
$946,000
Jackson Laboratory · Bar Harbor, ME · 2024
Extramural Research
$946,000
The University of Toledo · Toledo, OH · 2024
Extramural Research
$945,000
University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Extramural Research
$944,000
The Pennsylvania State Univ · Hershey, PA · 2024
Extramural Research
$935,249
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Support/Research
$924,500
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2024
Extramural Research
$899,680
Virginia Commonwealth Univ · Richmond, VA · 2024
Support/Research
$885,000
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Support/Research
$885,000
Regents of the University of California at San Diego · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Extramural Research
$884,500
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2024
Support/Research
$850,955
U of Tx Md Anderson Cancer Ctr · Houston, TX · 2024
Support/Research
$844,500
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2024
Extramural Research
$804,766
Salk Institute for Biological Studies · La Jolla, CA · 2024
Extramural Research
$800,750
Medical College of Wisconsin · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Support/Research
$792,000
Rosalind Franklin University · North Chicago, IL · 2024
Extramural Research
$792,000
Versiti Wisconsin · Chicago, IL · 2024
Extramural Research
$744,272
Curators of Univ of Missouri · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Extramural Research
$729,000
Hugo W Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Extramural Research
$725,000
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Extramural Research
$718,400
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic · Lebanon, NH · 2024
Extramural Research
$697,000
The Rector & Visitors of the · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
Extramural Research
$667,000
The University of Iowa · Iowa City, IA · 2024
Support/Research
$626,938
San Diego State University · San Diego, CA · 2024
Extramural Research
$625,000
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Support/Research
$580,709
Regents of the Univ of Mich · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Extramural Research
$575,000
Family Reach · Boston, MA · 2024
Patient Support
$550,750
Thomas Jefferson University · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Support/Research
$547,500
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$541,712
University of New Mexico · Albuquerque, NM · 2024
Support/Research
$541,365
University of Tennessee Memphis · Memphis, TN · 2024
Extramural Research
$491,000
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute · Houston, TX · 2024
Support/Research
$450,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2024
Support/Research
$435,000
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2024
Extramural Research
$399,874
Univ of Colorado Denver · Denver, CO · 2024
Extramural Research
$397,000
Rush University Medical Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support/Research
$367,500
University of Arkansas for · Little Rock, AR · 2024
Extramural Research
$367,500
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2024
Extramural Research
$351,250
Patient Advocate Foundation · Hampton, VA · 2024
Patient Support
$317,889
University of Florida · Gainesville, FL · 2024
Support/Research
$309,446
Indiana University · Detroit, MI · 2024
Extramural Research
$308,024
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2024
Support/Research
$300,144
Van Andel Research Institute · Grand Rapids, MI · 2024
Extramural Research
$300,000
Prostate Cancer Foundation · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
Patient Support
$300,000
Children'S Hospital Boston · Boston, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$300,000
Coriell Institute for Medical Research · Camden, NJ · 2024
Extramural Research Grant
$297,000
Morgridge Institute for Research · Madison, WI · 2024
Extramural Research
$297,000
Michigan State Univ · East Lansing, MI · 2024
Extramural Research

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