The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research
New York, NY · EIN 36-4825921. Reported 137 grants totalling $91.0M to 63 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research, the IRS classifies it under diseases & disorders rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE G30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 63 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $467,841. Half of what it reported fell between $179,461 and $823,349; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $3,362,500. 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 | $7,174,048 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $6,634,053 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $5,337,012 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $4,210,770 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $3,783,744 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $3,573,349 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $3,448,007 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salk Institute for Biological Studies | La Jolla, CA | $3,250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Association for Cancer Research | Philadelphia, PA | $3,150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $3,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $3,000,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $2,817,340 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $2,327,080 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rockefeller University | New York, NY | $2,249,997 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $2,175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $1,932,780 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,920,648 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $1,736,323 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | New York, NY | $1,658,276 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spg Hbr, NY | $1,608,208 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,448,007 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gabrielles Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Inc | New York, NY | $1,336,094 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health and Science University | Portland, OR | $1,304,993 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas Southwestern | Dallas, TX | $1,250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $1,173,867 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,073,007 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $963,989 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $948,825 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $948,007 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $881,352 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | $873,291 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $796,311 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas City, KS | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $738,094 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $728,932 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $698,007 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| RUNX1 Foundation | Santa Barbara, CA | $525,622 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $500,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Childrens National | Washington, DC | $367,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $361,366 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $327,266 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $287,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | Columbus, OH | $277,268 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Institute for Advanced Study | Princeton, NJ | $273,270 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc | Tampa, FL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trustees of Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $249,967 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $249,886 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Maryland School of Medicine | Baltimore, MD | $187,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc | New York, NY | $183,691 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $125,217 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Aspen Cancer Conference Inc | Basalt, CO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation | New York, NY | $49,248 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Genomic Pathology | Davis, CA | $37,584 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Brain Tumor Society Inc | Newton, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
42 of 63 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 63 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 36 | $25.0M | $477,780 |
| 2022 | 36 | $22.0M | $421,101 |
| 2023 | 36 | $24.4M | $376,236 |
| 2024 | 29 | $19.5M | $500,000 |
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
28% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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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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 $467,841 -- 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 New York.
- 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 The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 29 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 1350 Avenue of the Americas 2902, New York, NY, 10019.
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