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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “metastatic”
Where the money went
National Breast Cancer FoundationFrisco, TXCharity · may take applications
18 matching grants · $1.3M · through 2024Largest: $153,303 to Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Foundation — metastatic retreat
Hope ScarvesLouisville, KYCharity · may take applications
12 matching grants · $600,000 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — metastatic breast cancer research
Largest: $435,000 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — metastatic breast cancer research
Concern FoundationLos Angeles, CACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $495,000 · through 2024Largest: $225,000 to CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES USC — flip-flopping of fusion-positive rhabdomyosarcoma leading to metastatic invasion
Largest: $7,000 to METAVIVOR — research and survivor support specific to stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.
Troper Wojcicki FoundationSan Francisco, CA
2 matching grants · $1.5M · through 2024Largest: $1.0M to MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — a first-in-human clinical trial of engineered tumor infiltrating lymphocytes with membrane bound il15 plus acetazolamide in metastatic nsclc
National Pediatric CancerTampa, FLCharity · may take applications
2 matching grants · $820,000 · through 2022Largest: $770,000 to ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — two research study grants " targeting the tumor microenvironment of metastasis to treat metastatic ewing sarcoma and"re-purposing hiv nucleoside reverse transcriptas inhibitors for…
Largest: $123,750 to FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — assessing tumor heterogeneity in advanced metastatic prostate cancer
Largest: $160,000 to CALFIORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — support research on raman-guided subcellular pharmaco-metabolomics for deciphering metabolic control in metastatic melanoma
Largest: $250,000 to Regents of the University of Califo — reducing metastatic breast cancer
Largest: $37,500 to WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE — to characterize exosomes from nave and tumor-educated platelets and determine their contribution to metastatic dormancy and recurrence.
Largest: $2,700 to GITTY FOUNDATION FOR METASTATIC BRE — operating expenses
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →