What Is Rally’s 20/20: Alumni Visionary Grant?

Honoring 20 years of innovative ideas and the visionaries behind them. 

For 20 years, Rally Foundation for Childhood Cancer Research has proudly supported groundbreaking ideas, empowered early career investigators and accelerated the path from bench to bedside. To recognize 20 years as philanthropic seed investors in the next great discovery, Rally Foundation launched our 20/20: Alumni Visionary Grant. This one-time, competitive grant program honors our past by reinvesting in the exceptional researchers and projects we’ve supported over the years — and empowers the next chapter of discovery. 

Through this grant opportunity, we strive to: 

• 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. 

RESEARCH GRANTS 

Rally helps fund the most promising research initiatives through research grants including our 20/20: Alumni Visionary Grant. 

A Rally research grant is a financial award provided to universities, hospitals and private research institutions to support a specific research project. 

Rally grants are awarded based on a competitive dual peer-review process conducted by our Medical Advisory Board, which is made up of leading childhood cancer experts. 

The 20/20: Alumni Visionary Grant awards up to $100,000 per year for one or two years depending on how the investigator’s grant scored. 

Rally funds all levels of research, from science at the bench to translational, and includes fellows, young investigators and independent investigators. 

RALLY RESEARCH FOCUS 

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. 

WHY 

Because kids with cancer deserve better. 

Some childhood cancer treatments have been the same for more than 40 years. With your support, we are changing that. Rally-funded research has led to new and better treatments, and ultimately cures, with fewer harmful side effects. 

Between 2006 and 2025, Rally awarded $40.5 million in childhood cancer research grants funding 683 projects at institutions around the world. 

Rally’s next grants will be announced in early April 2026.