CancerFree KIDS Research Grants - New Idea Awards
Funding Amount
Varies by year (2025: $650,000 to $1,000,000+ total across multiple awards)
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH)
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH)
- Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH
Other requirements
- Early-stage researchers with promising preliminary data
Overview
Location: Cincinnati, OH and Columbus, OH (US)
Mission: Fund early-stage pediatric cancer research that would otherwise go unfunded
Program Overview
New Idea Awards fund bold concepts in the earliest stages of discovery for pediatric cancer research. These grants support innovative, high-risk research that has the potential to revolutionize childhood cancer treatment.
Funding Details
- 2025 Funding: 17 New Idea Awards awarded
- 2024 Funding: 22 New Idea Awards awarded ($1.4 million total)
- 2022 Funding: 18 New Idea Awards awarded ($550,000 at Cincinnati Children's; $350,000 at Nationwide Children's)
- Lifetime Investment: $12.5 million across 265 research grants (as of 2025)
Geographic Scope
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (Cincinnati, OH)
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH)
Research Focus Areas
- Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
- Neurofibromatosis
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Ewing Sarcoma
- Gliomas and Glioblastoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Medulloblastoma
- Hepatoblastoma
- Lymphomas (Burkitt's, etc.)
- Sarcomas (peripheral nerve sheath tumors, etc.)
- CAR-T cell therapies
- Immunotherapy approaches
- Biomarker and target discovery
- Cancer predisposition syndromes
Eligibility
- Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH
- Early-stage researchers with promising preliminary data
What They Fund
- Novel therapeutic approaches
- Drug target identification
- Immunotherapy development
- Gene therapy approaches
- Biomarker discovery
- Mechanism of disease research
- Health disparities in pediatric cancer
Background
CancerFree KIDS has invested over $12.5 million in early-stage pediatric cancer research over 23 years, fueling 265 research grants. The organization focuses on funding research that would otherwise lack initial, critical funding, enabling researchers to prove their concepts and secure subsequent funding for clinical trials and commercialization.
What CancerFree KIDS actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 3
- Total given
- $1.4M
- Median grant
- $649K
- Range
- $100K–$650K
- By dollars: Ohio 100%. Top recipient cities: Cincinnati, OH; Columbus, OH; Cleveland, OH.
Example grants
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · Cincinnati, OH
pediatric cancer research
$650K
Nationwide Children's Hospital · Columbus, OH
pediatric cancer research
$649K
University of Cincinnati · Cleveland, OH
pediatric cancer research
$100K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Cancer
- Science research
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