Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation
ActivoMedical Research
About Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation
The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology seeks to reduce the impact of cancer by uniting a broad community of scientists and clinicians who are committed to the prevention and treatment of cancer.
Focus Areas
CancerClinical trialsCancer preventionCancer treatment
Who They Fund
cancer researchersresearch institutionspeople with cancer (patients)
Funding Style
general operating supportresearch grant fundinginstitutional support
Topics
cancer research
About Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation
The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation centers its grantmaking on cancer research and clinical trials, with awards that support investigators, research institutions, and oncology-focused infrastructure. Its recent grants show a clear pattern of funding major academic medical centers and oncology research organizations, alongside support for its own affiliated Alliance NCTN Foundation. The largest recent awards went to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, including $2,911,621 in 2023, $2,559,886 in 2024, and $1,962,448 in 2025 for cancer research. Other sizable awards went to Washington University in St. Louis, The Ohio State University, and Duke University, indicating a recurring emphasis on research teams working in cancer treatment and prevention. The foundation also administers investigator awards, which are designed to support clinical investigators involved in Alliance clinical trials and cancer research. Across the recent grant list, the same recipient organizations appear in multiple years, showing a continued relationship with several research institutions rather than one-time funding only.
What Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation Funds
Cancer research is the foundation’s core grantmaking area. In the recent grants list, it gave $736,549 to University of Cincinnati Cancer Center for cancer research and $494,055 to Adaptive Biotechnologies for cancer research. Clinical trials are also central to its work through the Alliance Investigator Award and the Investigator Award program, both aimed at investigators conducting oncology clinical research. The foundation’s public taxonomy also points to cancer biology and cancer treatment development, which fits the pattern of awards to institutions such as Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc and Massachusetts General Hospital for cancer research. It also supports cancer prevention, reflected in its stated focus on prevention and treatment research within investigator awards.
How Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation Gives
Recent grant sizes cluster around the middle of five figures, with a typical grant size of $10,877 at the 25th percentile, $25,046 at the median, and $66,538 at the 75th percentile. The recent grant list shows repeated awards to the same institutions across 2023, 2024, and 2025, including Mayo Clinic, Washington University, The Ohio State University, Duke University, University of Chicago, NRG Oncology Foundation Inc, and ECOG-ACRIN Medical Research Foundation Inc. That pattern suggests ongoing institutional funding rather than isolated awards. The foundation is a regular funder and its active grant programs are administered awards rather than open calls; the Alliance Investigator Award is marked as not accepting unsolicited applications.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$12.8M
Total Assets
$112.8M
Total Revenue
$44.5M
Total Expenses
$48.3M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $11K and $67K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$11K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$67K
Geographic Reach
National43 states funded
About 10% of grants go to recipients in AL.
Intensidad de financiamiento
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