Funding search · EIN 131788491 · Atlanta, GA

American Cancer Society

Name: American Cancer Society grants, 2022–2024
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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.

2,566
grants reported: $597.1M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $20,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

patient research extramural health ambassador sponsor sponsorship award

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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

Extramural research grants to academic cancer centers and medical schools
Support/Research awards at NCI-designated and university-based institutions
Advocacy funding to American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
Patient support services and financial navigation for cancer patients
Professional and surgical society partnerships on cancer care quality

Typical grant

The median grant is $20,000 and the middle half runs $10,000 to $50,000, so most of the 2,566 awards on file are modest, individually-sized research or program checks. The very large checks go to a single advocacy affiliate and to a short list of research universities and cancer centers where the foundation is aggregating many investigator awards into one institutional line, running from about $1 million to nearly $10 million. Giving repeats: the same institutions appear year over year across the 2022-2024 window, which points to sustained portfolios rather than one-off awards.

Their words

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

“Extramural Research”
“Support/Research”
“Program Support”
“Patient Support”

Positioning adjacent work

Route through an institution that already appears in the record; awards flow to universities and cancer centers, not to individuals directly.
Frame the work as extramural research on cancer biology, treatment, or outcomes, matching their two dominant descriptors.
Size an initial ask at $10,000 to $50,000; the multimillion lines are aggregated institutional totals, not single projects.
If your work touches patient financial hardship or navigation, connect to the Patient Advocate Foundation and Family Reach precedent.

Worth knowing: By far the largest single flow, roughly $48 million across two 2024 grants, goes to their own affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, so the true competitive research pool is smaller than the $597 million total suggests. Recipients cluster in CA, TX, FL, NY, and PA and skew heavily toward large research universities, academic medical centers, and NCI-designated cancer centers; community organizations barely appear.

Top recipients

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

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network2 grants · $47.7M
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network1 grant · $36.4M
Acs Cancer Action Network1 grant · $34.0M
Massachusetts General Hospital2 grants · $14.1M
Yale University3 grants · $10.1M
Washington University2 grants · $8.2M
Dana Farber Cancer Institute2 grants · $6.9M
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio2 grants · $6.8M
University of Alabama at Birmingham5 grants · $6.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai2 grants · $6.7M

Giving over time

$187.8M

2022

$189.1M

2023

$220.2M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 2,566 grants.

$38.1M
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network · Washington, DC · 2024
Program Support
$36.4M
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network · Washington, DC · 2022
Program support
$34.0M
Acs Cancer Action Network · Washington, DC · 2023
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
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · San Antonio, TX · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$6.7M
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai · New York, NY · 2024
Support/Research
$5.6M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$5.4M
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$5.1M
Trustees of the Univ of Penn · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Support/Research
$4.6M
Oregon Health & Science University · Portland, OR · 2024
Extramural Research
$4.5M
Yale University · New Haven, CT · 2024
Extramural Research
$4.3M
Massachusetts General Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$4.2M
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2024
Extramural Research
$4.1M
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center · Oklahoma City, OK · 2024
Support/Research
$4.1M
Northern Arizona University Fdn · Flagstaff, AZ · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$4.0M
University of Tx Md Anderson Cancer Ctr · Houston, TX · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$3.9M
Washington University · St Louis, MO · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$3.7M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$3.7M
Dana Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2023
Support/Research
$3.6M
Icahn Schl of Med at Mt Sinai · New York, NY · 2023
Support/Research
$3.5M
Columbia University · New York, NY · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$3.5M
Regents of the Univ of Ca UCLA · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$3.5M
Ut Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2024
Extramural Research
$3.4M
Univ of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2023
Support/Research
$3.4M
Regents of the University of Colorado · Denver, CO · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$3.3M
Ohio State University Research Foundation · Columbus, OH · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$3.3M
Ohio State University · Columbus, OH · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$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
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Nashville, TN · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$3.0M
U of Tx Md Anderson Cancer Ctr · Houston, TX · 2024
Extramural Research
$2.9M
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Boston, MA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.9M
The Univ of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023
Support/Research
$2.9M
Indiana University Research & Technology Corp · Bloomington, IN · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.8M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$2.6M
Alabama State University · Montgomery, AL · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.6M
Research Foundation of the City University of New York · New York, NY · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$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
$2.5M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.4M
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Support/Research
$2.4M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$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
$2.2M
Board of Regents On the Univ · Madison, WI · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$2.2M
Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.2M
Stanford University · Redwood City, CA · 2023
Support/Research
$2.1M
Marshfield Clinic Health System · Marshfield, WI · 2022
Patient Support
$2.1M
Trustees of Boston Univ Bumc · Boston, MA · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$2.0M
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation · Cleveland, OH · 2024
Support/Research
$2.0M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.0M
Sloan - Kettering Ins for Cancer Research · New York, NY · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$2.0M
Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University · Redwood City, CA · 2024
Support/Research
$2.0M
University of Alabama at Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$2.0M
Univ of Texas Southwestern Medical Ctr · Dallas, TX · 2023
Support/Research
$1.9M
Baylor College of Medicine Health Care · Houston, TX · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.9M
University of Arizona · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.9M
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.8M
Johns Hopkins University · Chicago, IL · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$1.8M
St Jude Children'S Resrch Hosp · Memphis, TN · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$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
Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.8M
Weill Med College of Cornell U · New York, NY · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.8M
University of Rochester · Rochester, NY · 2023
Support/Research
$1.8M
The University of Texas Health · San Antonio, TX · 2023
Support/Research
$1.8M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Support/Research
$1.8M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.8M
President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston, MA · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.7M
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$1.7M
University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.7M
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.7M
University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT · 2023
Support/Research
$1.7M
Indiana University · Detroit, MI · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
Mass General Brigham Incorporated · Boston, MA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
University of Massachusetts · Worcester, MA · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2024
Support/Research
$1.6M
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
Regents of the Univ of Ca · La Jolla, CA · 2023
Support/Research
$1.6M
Sloan - Kettering Institute for · New York, NY · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.6M
Mayo Clinic · Minneapolis, MN · 2023
Support/Research
$1.6M
Oregon Health & Science Univ · Portland, OR · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital · Columbus, OH · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
Mayo Clinic · Rochester, MN · 2022
Patient Support
$1.6M
University of Utah Research Foundation · Salt Lake City, UT · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.6M
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.5M
University of Miami · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Support/Research
$1.5M
Ut Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.5M
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · Bronx, NY · 2023
Support/Research
$1.5M
Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Winston Salem, NC · 2023
Support/Research
$1.5M
Brigham and Womens Hospital · Boston, MA · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$1.5M
University of Illinois Chicag · Chicago, IL · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.5M
Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2024
Extramural Research
$1.5M
The Research Inst of Fox Chase Cancer Ctr · Philadelphia, PA · 2023
Extramural Research Grant
$1.5M
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA · 2022
Extramural Research Grant
$1.5M
Patient Advocate Foundation · Hampton, VA · 2024
Patient Support

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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.