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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 “immunotherapies”
Where the money went
Parker Institute for Cancer ImmunotherapySan Francisco, CACharity · may take applications
40 matching grants · $59.9M · through 2024Largest: $10.2M to DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC — support research in field of cancer immunotherapy
Jdrf InternationalNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
43 matching grants · $23.8M · through 2022Largest: $5.7M to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — immunotherapies
Largest: $750,000 to PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY — studying autoimmune diabetes following certain cancer immunotherapies.
The Multiple Myeloma ResearchNorwalk, CTCharity · may take applications
23 matching grants · $12.8M · through 2024Largest: $2.8M to DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — site investment grant, immunotherapy, prevention
CureboundSan Diego, CACharity · may take applications
10 matching grants · $7.1M · through 2024Largest: $4.7M to THE REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UC SAN DIEGO — see detail in part ivcancer research across five research pillars; including prevention and diagnostic tools, novel approaches and new therapeutic platforms, immunotherapies and pe…
Largest: $100,000 to JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — to investigate how the colon microbiota and host genetics intersect to alter responsiveness to immunotherapy in colorectal cancer.
Canine Cancer Research AllianceBellevue, WACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $626,984 · through 2024Largest: $160,000 to Yale University School of Medicine — canine cancer immunotherapy research (egfr/her2 vaccine and evaluating and enhancing its efficacy)
The Faris FoundationSugar Land, TXCharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $2.9M · through 2024Largest: $250,000 to TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER — immunotherapy research grant for brain cancer.
Largest: $220,000 to STANFORD UNIVERSITY — targeting cancer-associated rna splicing factor mutations and resultant neoantigens for immunotherapy
Pediatric Cancer Research FoundationIrvine, CACharity · may take applications
7 matching grants · $354,700 · through 2024Largest: $75,000 to BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — off-the-shelf combination cancer immunotherapy with oncolytic adeno-immunotherapy and car nk cell therapy for pediatric sarcoma
Largest: $5.0M to THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — to support the immunotherapy research of dr. anthonly lucci and dr. patrick hwu & to support the talent acquitistion research packages, technology and equipment and clinical trials…
Largest: $166,667 to MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER The Societ — immunotherapy research for pancreas cancer and the merit program
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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 →

