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The Breast Cancer Research

Name: The Breast Cancer Research grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

296
grants reported: $215.3M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $450,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

medical research

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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.

Where the money goes

Breast cancer laboratory and translational research at academic medical centers
Multi-year investigator awards at NCI-designated cancer centers
Large program grants to Johns Hopkins and UNC Chapel Hill
Professional society research award partnerships (ASCO, AACR, ASTRO)
Cooperative clinical trials groups (Alliance, ECOG-ACRIN, NSABP)
Small conference and patient support gifts under $30,000

Typical grant

The median is $450,000 and the middle half runs $225,000 to about $773,000, which reflects a recurring per-investigator award size that stacks by institution. The biggest checks go to institutions hosting multiple funded investigators or a named program: Johns Hopkins took $12.4 million in 2023 and $6.0 million in 2024, UNC Chapel Hill $5.9 million in 2024. Giving repeats heavily year over year to the same roster of cancer centers, with 296 grants spread over only 109 recipients across four years.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“MEDICAL RESEARCH”
“Cancer Center”
“Cancer Institute”
“School of Medicine”
“Cancer Research Group”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame adjacent work as breast cancer research explicitly; every grant in the file is coded medical research.
Ask in the $225,000 range for a first award; that figure repeats across dozens of institutions.
Route through an NCI-designated cancer center or medical school; freestanding nonprofits get only token gifts.
Point to a cooperative group or society tie-in (Alliance, ECOG-ACRIN, AACR) if your work is trial-based.

Worth knowing: This is investigator-driven funding channeled through a fixed set of major research institutions, concentrated in NY, MA, PA, IL and CA, with Johns Hopkins alone absorbing over $18 million in two years. A researcher without an appointment at one of the roughly 100 recurring institutions has essentially no path here, and small non-research grants top out around $25,000.

4 grants matching “pathology” · $24,000

$6,000
International Society of Breast Pathology · Jacksonville, FL · 2024
Medical research
$6,000
International Society of Breast Pathology · Jacksonville, FL · 2023
Medical research
$6,000
International Society of Breast Pathology · Jacksonville, FL · 2022
Medical research
$6,000
International Society of Breast Pathology · Jacksonville, FL · 2021
Medical research

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Johns Hopkins University4 grants · $26.1M
Dana Farber Cancer Insitute4 grants · $13.2M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center4 grants · $12.4M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill4 grants · $11.6M
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute4 grants · $8.4M
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine4 grants · $7.6M
The Asco Cancer Foundation3 grants · $5.7M
University of Michigan4 grants · $5.5M
University of California San Francisco3 grants · $5.1M
Yale School of Public Health4 grants · $4.8M

Giving over time

$43.6M

2021

$50.8M

2022

$59.8M

2023

$61.1M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 296 grants.

$12.4M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Medical research
$6.0M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Medical research
$5.9M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2024
Medical research
$4.3M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2021
Medical research
$3.7M
Dana Farber Cancer Insitute · Boston, MA · 2022
Medical research
$3.6M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2022
Medical research
$3.4M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2022
Medical research
$3.4M
Dana Farber Cancer Insitute · Boston, MA · 2023
Medical research
$3.4M
Dana Farber Cancer Insitute · Boston, MA · 2021
Medical research
$3.2M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2023
Medical research
$3.0M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2024
Medical research
$2.9M
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Medical research
$2.7M
Dana Farber Cancer Insitute · Boston, MA · 2024
Medical research
$2.6M
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · New York, NY · 2021
Medical research
$2.6M
The Asco Cancer Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2024
Medical research
$2.3M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Medical research
$2.1M
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute · Pittsburgh, PA · 2021
Medical research
$2.1M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
Medical research
$2.1M
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Medical research
$2.1M
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clincial Oncology · Alexandria, VA · 2023
Medical research
$2.0M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Medical research
$2.0M
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Medical research
$1.9M
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Medical research
$1.9M
University of California San Francisco Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Medical research
$1.9M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2024
Medical research
$1.8M
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Medical research
$1.8M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Medical research
$1.7M
The Asco Cancer Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Medical research
$1.6M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023
Medical research
$1.6M
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Medical research
$1.6M
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Medical research
$1.6M
University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2021
Medical research
$1.6M
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine · Philadelphia, PA · 2021
Medical research
$1.5M
Yale School of Public Health · New Haven, CT · 2024
Medical research
$1.4M
The Asco Cancer Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2021
Medical research
$1.4M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Medical research
$1.3M
University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2022
Medical research
$1.3M
The University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2024
Medical research
$1.3M
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Medical research
$1.3M
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2021
Medical research
$1.2M
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2024
Medical research
$1.2M
American Association for Cancer Research · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Medical research
$1.1M
Cornell University - Weill Cornell Medical College · New York, NY · 2023
Medical research
$1.1M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Medical research
$1.1M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Medical research
$1.1M
Yale School of Public Health · New Haven, CT · 2022
Medical research
$1.1M
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2021
Medical research
$1.1M
Yale School of Public Health · New Haven, CT · 2023
Medical research
$1.1M
The University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center · Houston, TX · 2023
Medical research
$1.1M
Weill Cornell Medical College · New York, NY · 2021
Medical research
$1.1M
Yale School of Public Health · New Haven, CT · 2021
Medical research
$1.1M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022
Medical research
$1.1M
Alliance for Cinical Trials in Oncology · Chicago, IL · 2022
Medical research
$1.1M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Medical research
$1.1M
Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Buffalo, NY · 2024
Medical research
$1.0M
Roswell Park Alliance Foundation · Buffalo, NY · 2023
Medical research
$1.0M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2022
Medical research
$1.0M
University of Washington · Seattle, WA · 2021
Medical research
$974,993
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Medical research
$974,866
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2024
Medical research
$970,197
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2024
Medical research
$961,468
Harvard Medical School · Boston, MA · 2024
Medical research
$950,093
Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Buffalo, NY · 2022
Medical research
$919,751
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Medical research
$917,886
Weill Cornell Medical College · New York, NY · 2024
Medical research
$911,660
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2022
Medical research
$900,000
Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Medical research
$899,988
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Medical research
$899,917
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2021
Medical research
$787,000
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center · Rochester, MS · 2021
Medical research
$775,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2023
Medical research
$775,000
Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN · 2023
Medical research
$775,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
Medical research
$775,000
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2022
Medical research
$771,816
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
Medical research
$749,985
Boston University · Boston, MA · 2024
Medical research
$733,807
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2024
Medical research
$725,300
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2024
Medical research
$725,000
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL · 2022
Medical research
$700,000
Trustees of Boston University · Boston, MA · 2023
Medical research
$694,751
University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Medical research
$693,090
Georgetown University Medical Center · Washington, DC · 2021
Medical research
$692,888
Weill Cornell Medical College · New York, NY · 2022
Medical research
$690,000
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2023
Medical research
$690,000
University of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Medical research
$687,500
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2024
Medical research
$675,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2024
Medical research
$675,000
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
Medical research
$675,000
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center · Rochester, MS · 2024
Medical research
$675,000
University of Kansas Medical Center · Kansas City, KS · 2024
Medical research
$675,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2023
Medical research
$675,000
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center · Rochester, MS · 2023
Medical research
$675,000
University of Kansas Medical Center · Kansas City, KS · 2023
Medical research
$675,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2022
Medical research
$675,000
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2022
Medical research
$675,000
The Rockefeller University · New York, NY · 2022
Medical research
$675,000
University of Kansas Medical Center · Kansas City, KS · 2022
Medical research
$675,000
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2021
Medical research
$675,000
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2021
Medical research
$675,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Boston, MA · 2021
Medical research

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.