The Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment (CARE Fund) is Washington State’s cancer research endowment, created by the legislature in 2015 and named for the late Senator Andy Hill. The fund awards competitive grants and makes strategic investments to advance cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and commercialization of discoveries, while leveraging Washington’s research institutions and biotech sector to improve health outcomes for Washington residents.
Supports policies that fund and expand biomedical and cancer research, public-private matching investments, grant-making to academic and private research institutions, workforce and economic development in the life sciences, and initiatives that accelerate commercialization and access to cancer therapies.
Primarily funded by Washington State appropriations (authorized up to $10 million annually) and supplemented by required non-state matching funds, private philanthropy, and donations.
Washington Cancer Impact Foundation (program administrator), formerly Empire Health Foundation; research partners and grantees such as Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington, Seattle Children’s Research Institute; life-science groups like Life Science Washington; namesake Senator Andy Hill and CARE Fund board members and leadership.
State-established public-private endowment (public instrumentality administered in partnership with nonprofit program administrators)
