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Assistance listing · 93.393
Cancer Cause and Prevention Research
Federal financial assistance obligated under listing 93.393, the organisations that receive it and where it goes.
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Federal agencies obligated $844M in awards under assistance listing 93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention Research, in FY2025, and $3.9B over the five fiscal years since FY2022; the program ranks 139 of 1056 on this site.
Obligations were up 11% on FY2024 ($764M), with $819M so far in FY2026.
The largest recipient organisations over FY2022–FY2025 were The Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ($90M), Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research ($82M) and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. ($74M).
By place of performance, the most money went to NY, MA and TN.
Obligations by fiscal year
Compared with the largest program FY2025
| Measure | This program | Grants to States for Medicaid | All assistance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obligations, FY2025 | $844M | $666B | $4.5T |
| Five-year total | $3.9B | $3.2T | $21T |
| Share of all assistance obligations, five years | 0% | 15.2% | 100% |
Largest recipients obligations, FY2022–FY2025
Awarding agencies $1.0M+ awards
Where the money goes
Largest awards since FY2022
Other programs numbered 93.xxx
- 93.778 Grants to States for Medicaid $3.2T
- 93.767 Children's Health Insurance Program $102B
- 93.558 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families $85B
- 93.600 Head Start $57B
- 93.423 1332 State Innovation Waivers $46B
- 93.575 Child Care and Development Block Grant $39B
- 93.658 Foster Care Title IV-E $25B
- 93.568 Low-Income Home Energy Assistance $22B
- 93.855 Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research $21B
- 93.563 Child Support Services $20B
- 93.659 Adoption Assistance $19B
- 93.866 Aging Research $19B
- 93.224 Health Center Program $19B
- 93.210 Tribal Self-Governance Program: IHS Compacts/Funding Agreements $18B
- 93.596 Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund $16B
- 93.837 Cardiovascular Diseases Research $16B
- 93.859 Biomedical Research and Research Training $15B
- 93.566 Refugee and Entrant Assistance State/Replacement Designee Administered Programs $14B
- 93.243 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance $11B
- 93.676 Unaccompanied Alien Children Program $10B
- 93.798 Rural Health Transformation Program $10B
- 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research $9.8B
- 93.853 Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders $9.4B
- 93.959 Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse $9.1B
Questions and answers
How much is obligated under assistance listing 93.393?
$844M in FY2025 and $3.9B over the five fiscal years since FY2022, counting every award type recorded under the listing (grants, direct payments, loan subsidy cost, insurance and other assistance). Obligations are commitments, not payments.
Who receives the most under Cancer Cause and Prevention Research?
The Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ($90M), Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research ($82M), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc. ($74M), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ($74M), The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York ($68M). Individuals are never listed; where a program pays individuals, USAspending records aggregated rows that appear here as "not shown".
What is an assistance listing (CFDA) number?
A five-digit number that identifies a federal financial assistance program on SAM.gov (formerly the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance). Every grant, loan, direct payment or other assistance award on USAspending carries one; contracts do not.
Provenance
Source: USAspending.gov API v2, spending by category (assistance listing) by fiscal year, recipient cross-tabulation for FY2022–FY2025 and award search, loaded 30 Sep 2026. State figures come from each state's top-100 listing table, so small amounts in a state may be missing. See methodology.