Celebrating 50 Years With 50,000 Supporters
Everyone who supports Fred Hutch has a personal, and deeply felt, motivation. Our vibrant community, united by the Campaign for Fred Hutch, will accomplish together what none of us can do alone: redefine cancer and infectious disease for the next generation to ensure that no one has to endure their life-altering impact.
To celebrate the organization's 50th anniversary in 2025, we aim to bring together 50,000 donors — and 50,000 reasons — to collectively jumpstart new ideas, lay the foundation for a decade of breakthroughs, foster emerging scientists, and sustain world-changing research and care for the future.
Whatever you choose to support — a specific disease area or faculty member, an emerging idea, the next generation of scientists — you will activate a lever for change. By joining together to move all these interlocked levers at once, our community has the power to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease.
The range of gift opportunities highlighted below is a starting point for conversation. We're eager to learn what matters most to you and to work together to create the impact you want to have. To get started, contact us at philanthropy@fredhutch.org or 206.667.4399.
Fuel Innovative Ideas, Discoveries and Partnerships
Philanthropic support is more flexible than any other source of scientific funding, allowing our researchers to quickly follow where the science leads, answer emerging questions and develop proof of concept for new ideas.
Gifts of all sizes
Come together with other donors who share your vision and priorities to collectively power progress in the disease area or field of research that matters most to you.
$50,000
Provide the boost a researcher needs to show the potential public benefit and commercial promise of a great idea by contributing to Fred Hutch's in-house incubator, the Evergreen Fund.
$100,000
Launch a research pilot project, giving a team of scientists the flexible resources to explore a novel idea and accumulate initial data that can unlock larger grants.
$350,000 to $1.5 million
Support and expand our biorepositories — collections of cells, DNA, and other precious materials donated by patients — so scientists can access them to make fundamental discoveries, now and in the future.
Bring New Strengths to Existing Strengths
Support from our community is critical to attracting top new faculty members, retaining those who are here, and training the next generation of researchers and clinicians — especially those from groups that are underrepresented in science.
Gifts of all sizes
Support life-changing education programs that engage, encourage and empower young people to explore and enter careers related to cancer research.
$40,000
Help aspiring scientists make the leap from college to graduate school by covering the cost of a full year of program activities for our Postbaccalaureate Scholar Program.
$150,000
Help launch a pilot program called HutchASCEND to train recent college graduates for careers as clinical research coordinators.
$6 million
Supercharge progress in an area that you care about by recruiting a new faculty member to Fred Hutch and providing five years of startup funding.
Grow Our Leading-Edge Patient Programs
When you or someone you care about is being treated for cancer, nothing matters more than clinical excellence and compassionate care. Your support bolsters our care teams and eases the journey for future patients.
Gifts of all sizes
Give back to care teams by contributing to the Nursing Excellence Fund, which supports crucial nursing and clinical operations functions.
$10,000
Sponsor an event for cancer survivors, patients, caregivers and families to grow community connections and share insight into treatment and survivorship.
$25,000 to $50,000
Stock the food pantries for a year at Fred Hutch's two patient lodging facilities, providing fresh, nutritionally appropriate food for more than 1,800 people.
$100,000
Fund a pilot study to explore a new dimension of palliative care, survivorship or integrative medicine.
Increase Equity to Improve Outcomes for Everyone
Your support helps strengthen our partnerships with communities that carry the greatest burden of cancer and other diseases. It also enables us to study the causes of health disparities and scale sustainable solutions to improve access and outcomes for everyone.
Gifts of all sizes
Support our Patient and Family Assistance Fund to alleviate the costs of lodging, food and fuel for income-eligible patients.
$10,000
Give an undergraduate at a historically Black college or university the opportunity to work in a computational biology lab at Fred Hutch through our REACH summer internship program.
$400,000
Fund a patient navigator for three years to ensure the most vulnerable patients have help connecting with supportive services that make cancer care more manageable.
$1.5 million
Support the Cancer Care Delivery Research study to help the Hutch Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research expand patient access to Fred Hutch-sponsored clinical trials to patients across Washington state.
Build Next-Generation Programs, Facilities and Spaces
Your gift helps Fred Hutch create and cultivate purpose-driven environments that assist patients in their treatment and healing and provide researchers with spaces optimized to drive collaborative, curiosity-driven science.
Gifts of all sizes
Support the expansion of Fred Hutch's South Lake Union campus to grow our capacity for collaborative research in precision oncology and other high-priority areas.
$850,000
Renovate space to create a state-of-the-art laboratory for a new research team, supporting Fred Hutch’s goal of growing our faculty from 250 to 300 principal investigators over the coming decade.
$58,000 to $1.2 million
Invest in equipment for our Shared Resources program, expanding the range of cutting-edge technologies and specialized expertise available to every Fred Hutch investigator.
$500,000 to $100 million
Name a space on our campus — like a lobby, a laboratory or an entire building — and send a powerful message of support to people experiencing cancer and those working to end it.
Invest in Long-Term Sustainability
Endowments fuel our urgent mission by providing consistent, ongoing support for discovery — and they reflect the generosity and vision of the donors who create and support them.
Gifts of all sizes
Contribute to the Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Endowment to fuel scientists who are making fundamental discoveries about life.
$100,000+
Create an endowment, in your name or the name of someone you'd like to honor, to support Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s operations.
$250,000+
Create an endowment, in your name or the name of someone you'd like to honor, to benefit the program or area of research you care about most.
$2 million
Create an endowed chair for a faculty member to support, in perpetuity, an area of research that is most important to you.
Deepen Your Impact
Through our Anniversary Challenge, your generous gift of $1 million or more — to support our physical expansion; establish an endowed chair; or enable and advance immunotherapy, precision oncology, and virus and vaccine research — will be matched by the Bezos family’s landmark 2022 gift. This is an opportunity to come together with other supporters to recognize Fred Hutch’s 50th anniversary and radically increase the pace and scale of innovation. Contact philanthropy@fredhutch.org to learn more.
50,000 supporters joining together
When we come together, we are bigger than the problems facing us. By joining the Campaign for Fred Hutch, you can play a powerful role in changing the definition of what’s possible.
Explore Our Campaign
Our Campaign
Our vibrant community of supporters is coming together at this moment of stunning possibility to fuel extraordinary leaps in cancer and infectious disease research. Explore our vision for the future.
Our Breakthroughs
We've been changing the definition of what's possible for 50 years. Learn how we're building on decades of progress in understanding cancer and infectious disease to advance prevention, detection and treatment.
Your Reason Is Our Pursuit
Everyone who supports Fred Hutch has a unique motivation. Collectively, these reasons power our pursuit of breakthroughs. Find out how some of our supporters are turning their 'why' into impact.