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Blood Cancer United Inc
Washington, DC · EIN 13-5644916. Reported 358 grants totalling $221.9M to 107 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Blood Cancer United Inc, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 107 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 81% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $279,736. Half of what it reported fell between $124,866 and $749,899; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $5,366,350. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $21.4M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $11.3M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $10.8M | 12 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $10.4M | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Joan & Sanford I Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $9,906,600 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $9,835,891 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $9,546,754 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $8,937,492 | 8 | 5 | 2024 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $8,454,934 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $7,283,304 | 7 | 5 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $6,901,378 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $6,214,046 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $5,448,598 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $4,794,010 | 10 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $4,655,789 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Beckman Research Institute | Duarte, CA | $4,459,668 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $3,961,653 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $3,884,552 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dren Bio | Foster City, CA | $3,699,997 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc | Tampa, FL | $3,561,591 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $3,537,495 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Virginia Medical School Foundation | Charlottesvle, VA | $2,969,685 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | $2,705,566 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $2,558,479 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $2,550,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Immune -Onc Therapeutics Inc | Winter Park, FL | $2,499,999 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $2,196,712 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $2,114,225 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $2,063,027 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $1,942,818 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $1,818,350 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $1,760,700 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,670,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $1,537,009 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $1,511,299 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Methodist Hospital | Houston, TX | $1,500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation | Philadelphia, PA | $1,459,926 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $1,239,698 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $1,210,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $1,098,475 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Indiana University | Fort Wayne, IN | $1,050,297 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,017,435 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $1,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $999,899 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $950,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas Southwester | Dallas, TX | $929,389 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | $763,680 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Texas A&m University Health Science Center | Houston, TX | $750,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $750,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $707,762 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Tufts College | Medford, MA | $658,237 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $656,448 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| City of Hope National Medical Center | Duarte, CA | $650,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $639,209 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $610,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Seattle Childrens Foundation | Seattle, WA | $606,108 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Immunitas Therapeutics Inc | Waltham, MA | $595,605 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health and Science University Foundation | Portland, OR | $550,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $535,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Western Institute for Veterans Institute | Salt Lake City, UT | $502,845 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Abintus Bio Inc | San Diego, CA | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Auron Therapeutics | Newton, MA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Durham Va Medical Center | Durham, NC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mpn Research Foundation | Chicago, IL | $500,000 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $500,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences | Little Rock, AR | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Vittoria Biotherapeutics | Philadelphoa, PA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rgenta | Woburn, MA | $499,999 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Solu Therapeutics | Boston, MA | $499,999 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Van Andel Institute | Grand Rapids, MI | $485,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $480,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Atrium Health Foundation | Charlotte, NC | $379,541 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Indiana University Foundation | Bloomington, IN | $365,927 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Nyu Grossman School of Medicine | New York, NY | $319,540 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nmdp Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The International Waldenstroms Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc | Chicago, IL | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $279,482 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Be the Match Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research | Westbury, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of California at Davis | Davis, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Mainehealth Hcsr | Portland, ME | $240,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of California Irvine Foundation | Irvine, CA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $194,475 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $123,385 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $110,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | Edison, NJ | $104,194 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Montefiore Medical Center | Bronx, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | Edison, NJ | $99,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California University of Science and Medicine | Colton, CA | $96,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cincinnati Education and Research for Veterans Foundation | Cincinnati, OH | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute for Medical Research Inc | Durham, NC | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Versiti Blood Health Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Veteran Affairs San Diego Health Care | San Diego, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Madison, WI | $73,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $57,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $56,997 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Constellation Center Inc | Cambridge, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ecd Global Alliance Inc | Deridder, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Maryland Baltimore | Baltimore, MD | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Veterans Health Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
81 of 107 (76%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 73 of 107 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 72 | $31.1M | $205,000 |
| 2021 | 74 | $42.5M | $301,750 |
| 2022 | 76 | $48.3M | $250,000 |
| 2023 | 69 | $52.3M | $371,000 |
| 2024 | 67 | $47.7M | $370,000 |
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
15% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. 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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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $279,736 -- 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 Massachusetts.
- 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 Blood Cancer United Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 65 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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: 1201 15TH Street Nw Suite 410, Washington, DC, 20005.
EIN 13-5644916 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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