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Huntsman Cancer Foundation
ActivePublic CharityMedical Research
About Huntsman Cancer Foundation
To understand cancer from its beginnings, to use that knowledge in the creation and improvement of cancer treatments, to relieve the suffering of cancer patients, and to provide education about cancer risk, prevention, and care.
Focus Areas
cancer researchclinical trialsgenetics and hereditary cancerpatient support and carecancer education and prevention
Who They Fund
Huntsman Cancer Institute / University of Utah (institutional beneficiary)cancer patients and clinical service recipientscancer research community (scientists, clinicians)
Funding Style
sole supporting organization / affiliated institutional supportdonor-restricted compliance (follow donor instructions)
About Huntsman Cancer Foundation
A defining feature of Huntsman Cancer Foundation is its role as a sole supporting organization to Huntsman Cancer Institute. The recent grants show repeated large transfers to the Health Sciences Center in Salt Lake City, with one 2023 payment of $90,167,143 described as donor-restricted and coordinated through the CEOs of both organizations. A 2024 grant of $38,462,978 followed the same pattern, indicating that the foundation’s grantmaking is organized around institutional support rather than a broad portfolio of independent recipients. Its mission centers on understanding cancer from its beginnings, using that knowledge to improve treatment, relieving patient suffering, and providing education about cancer risk, prevention, and care. The foundation also works within a donor-instruction framework, with payments tied to specific instructions in the grant records. Its public charity status and high annual grant volume place it in a large-scale funding role, but the recipient pattern is tightly focused on Huntsman Cancer Institute and related health services functions at the University of Utah.
What Huntsman Cancer Foundation Funds
Cancer research is a core area for Huntsman Cancer Foundation, reflected in its stated purpose to understand cancer from its beginnings and use that knowledge to improve treatments. That research orientation sits alongside support for clinical trials and genetics and hereditary cancer, both listed in its focus areas. Patient-facing work is also part of the portfolio: the foundation’s purpose includes relieving the suffering of cancer patients, and its focus areas include patient support and care. Education and prevention appear as well, with explicit attention to cancer risk, prevention, and care. The 2025 grant of $41,173,236 to the Health Sciences Center at the University of Utah was described as support for Huntsman Cancer Institute at Health Services Center, linking the foundation’s giving to institutional cancer services and research delivery.
How Huntsman Cancer Foundation Gives
The foundation’s typical grant size is very large: p25 is $51,389,019, median is $64,315,060, and p75 is $77,241,102. The recent grant record shows a repeated institutional pattern across 2023, 2024, and 2025, with all listed grants going to the same Salt Lake City recipient. It is structured as a public charity and a sole supporting organization, with grant payments coordinated between the CEOs of Huntsman Cancer Foundation and Huntsman Cancer Institute. The records also describe donor-restricted compliance, with grants made according to specific donor instructions.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$41.2M
Total Assets
$96.6M
Total Revenue
$51.9M
Total Expenses
$50M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $51.4M and $77.2M, with a median of $64.3M.
25th Percentile
$51.4M
Median
$64.3M
75th Percentile
$77.2M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 100% of grants go to recipients in UT.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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