A Record Year of Impact

Rally Kid Caroline, Dean, her mom Emily and Emma at the White House.

In 2025, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research reached an extraordinary milestone: we granted $5 million, our largest amount ever to fund research that brings us closer to better treatments and cures for kids, teens and young adults fighting cancer.

That $5 million wasn’t just a number. It was an investment in bold ideas and brilliant minds across the country and around the world.

We supported groundbreaking work in immunotherapy, tumor biology, drug resistance, survivorship and more. We funded researchers taking on the toughest cancers like DMG, brain tumors, high-risk neuroblastoma, Ewing sarcoma, osteosarcoma and relapsed leukemia. We stood behind early-career scientists and seasoned investigators alike, driving progress across 40 institutions.

Every grant awarded is dual peer-reviewed and thoroughly scrutinized by our esteemed Medical Advisory Board to ensure scientific merit, innovation and potential for impact.

We even helped power international collaborations because childhood cancer knows no borders, and neither should the science that fights it.

Since our founding, Rally has awarded more than $45 million in research grants across the United States and around the world.

But 2025 brought more than just record-breaking grantmaking by Rally.

Because of Rally’s relentless advocacy and the thousands of families, survivors and supporters who’ve raised their voices with us. We helped secure $75 million through the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) for pediatric, adolescent and young adult cancer research.

This wasn’t a one-time win. It was the result of years of perseverance and a powerful truth we carried into every meeting on Capitol Hill: when cancer strikes a military family, it becomes a national concern.

We shared the stories of children fighting cancer whose parents were on active duty, serving our country while their own child battled for life back home. We spoke about the heartbreak of service members themselves being diagnosed, and the toll it takes on their families.

Cancer doesn’t care about uniforms or sacrifice. But we do.

And the Department of Defense listened. They recognized that supporting pediatric, adolescent and young adult cancer research is not just a healthcare issue, it’s a readiness, resilience and national defense issue.

2025 was a year of numbers but more importantly, it was a year of impact.

Because every dollar Rally granted, every federal dollar leveraged, every child in the fight, every survivor celebrated, every child remembered. That’s what fuels the next breakthrough.

That’s what gives families hope.

That’s what it means to Rally.

This is the power of people.

This is the power of purpose.

This is Rally.