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....

In 2021, Charity Navigator awarded Rally its first-ever perfect 100 score, a distinction earned by fewer than 1% of nonprofits nationwide. Each year since then, we’ve earned that perfect score, placing Rally as the most trusted and transparent childhood cancer charity in the country funding research globally and delivering services to childhood cancer families. This top mark recognizes our unwavering financial stewardship, commitment to accountability and the deep trust our donors place in us....

In a year when the world shut down, Rally showed up with unwavering commitment and extraordinary heart. As the pandemic took hold in March 2020, fear and uncertainty became the norm. But at Rally, we remained focused on our mission. Right as the world was closing, we awarded $2 million in research grants because our donors had given to fund childhood cancer research, and that’s exactly what we were going to do. No hesitation. No retreat. Just forward. We heard from so many researchers. Rally...

Sometimes, the most powerful breakthroughs don’t start with a microscope or a lab bench. Sometimes, they start with a bold idea and a lot of data. In 2018, Rally Foundation took a risk on something most people would never find exciting: data. But we saw something others didn’t. A visionary pediatric oncologist named Dr. Sam Volchenboum at the University of Chicago who had an outside-the-box idea that could change the future of childhood cancer research. That idea became the Pediatric Cancer...

In 2016, we took bold steps forward. In September, Rally Foundation led our first-ever Rally to the U.S. Capitol during CureFest. Childhood cancer families, survivors, researchers and advocates came together in Washington, D.C., united by one mission: to make childhood cancer a national priority. It was a powerful moment. We weren’t just raising awareness. We were respectfully raising our voices. Kids are dying because of childhood cancer, and they deserve better. That first Rally to the...

Just seven years after giving our very first grant, a $5,000 check given in a driveway, Rally hit a milestone we once only dreamed of: we awarded $1 million in research grants in a single year. One million dollars. That moment wasn’t just about a number.  It was about belief. It was about the belief our donors placed in us, the trust they had in our mission, and the hope they shared that better treatments, and one day, cures are possible. Among the grants that year was one to Dr. Sarah Tasian,...