20/20: Alumni Visionary Grant

Award Amount: Up to $100,000 per year for one or two years depending on how the investigator's grant scored

Purpose: One-time, competitive grant program launched to honor Rally Foundation's 20 years of supporting groundbreaking ideas and empowering early career investigators. Recognizes 20 years as philanthropic seed investors in the next great discovery.

Goals:

• Recognize the achievements of past principal investigators, whose research continues to shape the field
• Support innovative, next-phase research that builds upon previous Rally-funded studies
• Support forward-thinking, potentially transformative approaches that could define the next 20 years of pediatric cancer care

Eligibility:

• Researchers and projects previously supported by Rally Foundation
• Exceptional researchers and projects from Rally's history

Research Focus Areas: Rally research grants must address at least one of the following priority areas:

• Innovative approaches to research that could lead to advanced studies or clinical trials
• Basic science studies that are likely to lead to a new discovery
• Under-studied cancer types
• Quality of life, survivorship and palliative care studies
• Personalized, targeted, alternative or integrative research proposals
• Data utilization through data standardization, collection, storage, analysis and sharing

Geographic Scope: International (institutions worldwide)

Research Levels Funded: Bench science, translational, and clinical research

Selection Process: Competitive dual peer-review process conducted by Rally Medical Advisory Board (leading childhood cancer experts)

Contact Information:

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: (404) 847-1270
• Mailing Address: 5775 Glenridge Drive Building B, Suite 370 Atlanta, GA 30328
• Federal Tax ID: #20-1950849

Background: Rally Foundation has awarded $40.5 million in childhood cancer research grants funding 683 projects at institutions worldwide between 2006 and 2025. In 2026, 10 20/20: Alumni Visionary Grants were awarded as part of the foundation's 20th anniversary celebration.