Our Funders
The Latino Cancer Institute (TLCI) acknowledges the growing number of funders who make our work possible. These grants and donations allow TLCI to meet its aims to develop and share best practices, collaborate in research, and drive policy to increase Latino cancer service agencies capacity to address cancer concerns in our communities around the country
Corporate and Institutional Donors

2019 California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine – Office of the Governor of the State of California – $3MIL, 3YR Grant Award
The project, Reducing Cancer Disparities through Innovative Community-Academic Partnership to Advance Access and Delivery of Precision Medicine in Monterey County, will focus on improving access and effectiveness of precision medicine for low-income and racial/ethnic minorities living in Monterey County and diagnosed with breast, prostate, colon and lung cancers. The Latino Cancer Institute is teamed with SPHERE (Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic and Racial Equity), the Stanford Cancer Institute, the Cancer Patients Alliance, Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas and Pacific Cancer Care on this unique project. 23 institutions vied for these grants and only 3 were awarded. Click here to read more about this grant.

2019 Pfizer – $5,000
To support the official launch of The Latino Cancer Institute and its Inaugural Forum, Reports from the Field, San Francisco Hilton, September 20, 2019.

2019 American Cancer Society, CA – $2,500
To support the official launch of The Latino Cancer Institute and its Inaugural Forum, Reports from the Field, San Francisco Hilton, September 20, 2019.
Jeffrey and Holly Ullman Donor Advised Fund – $10,000
This donation will apply to the operations and continuing development of

This research project, Latino Community Education Tool on Hereditary Breast Cancer, launched in partnership with Laura Fejerman, Ph.D., Fejerman Labs, UCSF, was funded to develop and test a hereditary breast cancer. It includes a training curriculum for community health workers (CHW’s) aka

2018 Genentech – $48,500
This grant also supports the

This research grant, Developing An Online Training Mechanism for a Guided, Bilingual Learning Program for Latinas on Hereditary Breast Cancer, was launched in partnership with Co-PI, Lisa Goldman Rosas,

Operating Fund Grant

Operating Fund Grant
2018 The Brandwynne Fund – $5,000
Granted in the name of labor lawyer, Al Meyerhoff, called a legal voice for the poor by the New York Times. Meyerhoff, 61, the husband of TLCI National Advisory Council member, Marcia Brandwynne, died in 2008 of complications from leukemia. This grant supports TLCI’s web development.
This grant, A Community Approach to Increase Knowledge and Engagement In Precision Medicine, was awarded to develop a marketing and dissemination plan for The Latino Cancer Institute to advance precision medicine awareness and engagement in the Latino community. It will be utilized in concert with our Online Training Portal to drive TLCI membership which includes access to the training portal.
Individual Donors
Paul Gleason
James Hackett
Jeffrey and Holly Ullman Donor Advised Fund
Special Projects Partners

This project, Survey of English and Spanish Speaking Clinical Trials Patients, aims to understand the Latino patient clinical trial experience and how to improve it; learn from the Latino patient clinical trial experience how to increase knowledge, culturally tailor education, outreach, and recruitment; and develop an adaptable model of community engagement for other diverse communities.