Sontag Foundation
A brain cancer research funder that bets on brilliant early career scientists chasing bold, high risk ideas, backing the people rather than the safe project.
Financial profile
Sontag Foundation · EIN 59-3634325 · 501(c)(3)
| Fiscal year | Total revenue | Contributions | Program services | Total expenses | Net assets | Year end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | $6,862,500 | $9,190,581 | $187,419,208 | Dec 2023 | ||
| FY2022 | $106,551,695 | $8,565,078 | $171,138,520 | Dec 2022 | ||
| FY2021 | $6,956,061 | $5,038,565 | $96,500,718 | Dec 2021 | ||
| FY2020 | $210,475 | $4,438,315 | $84,308,527 | Dec 2020 | ||
| FY2019 | $1,797,213 | $3,989,727 | $75,983,151 | Dec 2019 | ||
| FY2015 | $776,366 | $3,420,479 | $42,772,860 | Dec 2015 |
Figures exactly as reported. A blank cell was blank on the form. The fiscal year links to the filing.
Peer societies
Five societies Sontag Foundation is read alongside.
CHNF
Craig H Neilsen Foundation
The largest private funder of spinal cord injury research, rehabilitation, and independent living, born from…
BWF
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
An independent biomedical foundation that backs scientists at pivotal career transitions and funds discovery…
HHWF
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
A biomedical research foundation that since 1947 has given early-career postdoctoral scientists independent…
1 companies named
OPF
Ono Pharma Foundation
A corporate linked science foundation whose Ono Initiative funds high risk, high reward research in chemical…
LF
Leinweber Foundation
A bold backer of fundamental science alongside Michigan opportunity
Who backs SF
No public supporter list found as of September 2026.
Who backs Sontag Foundation's peers, but not Sontag Foundation
Companies named publicly by at least one of Sontag Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in Sontag Foundation's reviewed public records.
| Company | HHWF | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Merck & Co.,Inc. | Merck sponsored fellows | 1 of 1 |
The outside view
A brain cancer research funder that bets on brilliant early career scientists chasing bold, high risk ideas, backing the people rather than the safe project.
- Authority
- Build
- Outward
- Operational
Their shape
The Frontier
At home at the edge of what comes next.
The Frontier is restless and pioneering, always testing what comes next. Its gift is innovation and adaptability, its challenge is focus, and not leaving its longtime members behind.
Also reads toward The Movement, The Legacy and The Citadel.
Strengths
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