Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology

In filing year 2024, Conquer Cancer reported 39 grants totaling $17,446,670. The grants ranged from $50,000 to $7,681,670, with a median of $100,000.

The largest reported grant was $7,681,670 to the American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, for charitable assistance. Other large awards included $1,415,000 to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for Young Investigator Awards and a Long-Term International Fellowship; $1,000,000 to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for Young Investigator, Career Development, and Advanced Clinical Research Awards; and $900,000 to Johns Hopkins University for those same three award categories. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center received $850,000 for Young Investigator and Career Development Awards. Other recipients included Massachusetts General Hospital ($550,000), University of California San Francisco ($500,000), University of North Carolina Chapel Hill ($500,000), Mayo Clinic Minnesota ($450,000), Columbia University ($400,000), The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research ($300,000), and Baylor College of Medicine ($250,000).

The organization’s 2024 program reporting describes three Advanced Clinical Research Awards totaling $1,350,000, 21 Career Development Awards totaling $4,200,000, and 91 Young Investigator Awards totaling $4,560,000. It also reports support for global oncology awards, international innovation projects, and a Long-Term International Fellowship. These program totals describe award activity and are distinct from the 39 itemized grants reported for the filing year.

Current opportunities described by the organization include Career Pathway Grants in Symptom Management, ASCO Annual Meeting Merit Awards, and International Innovation Grants. The symptom-management pathway is for early-career researchers moving from training toward principal-investigator roles and includes funding for the researcher and mentor. Merit Awards recognize fellows and trainees who are first authors on abstracts selected for the ASCO Annual Meeting. International Innovation Grants offer up to $20,000 for one-year projects by nonprofit organizations and government agencies in low- and middle-income countries, focused on innovative cancer-control work with potential for transfer to other such settings.

Grant recipients must sign an agreement. Requests to change a project’s objectives or scope require justification and Conquer Cancer’s review and approval; grantees must also request approval for changes to the project or their status.