Removing Barriers
Accelerating Cures

Bardo Foundation funds high-impact projects that close the gaps in childhood cancer research and care — from bridging the “valley of death” to reducing global treatment inequalities.

What We Do

Bridge the Valley of Death: We invest in work that moves promising discoveries from the lab into treatments for children.

Reduce Global Inequalities: We support projects that close the survival gap between children in high-income and low- and middle-income countries.

Strengthen Research Enablers: From collaborative infrastructure to manufacturing capacity, we fund the resources needed to accelerate cures.

Two Ways We Fund

Strategic Impact Grants: Invitation-only grants to qualified charitable organizations tackling urgent and underfunded challenges in pediatric oncology.

Operating Support Grants: Restricted grants to The Bardo Foundation (Public Charity) to ensure its programs are built on a strong, sustainable foundation.

Why It Matters

  • 40+ years with little progress for some childhood cancers

  • Only 4% of US federal cancer research funding goes to pediatrics

  • Survival rates in some low-income countries are below 20%, compared to over 80% in high-income countries

Progress in childhood cancer is possible, but only if we close the funding and infrastructure gaps that hold it back. Bardo Foundation exists to close those gaps.

About Us

Formed in memory of Bernardo (“Bardo”), we are a private foundation committed to ensuring promising ideas and urgent needs in pediatric cancer get the funding, stability, and speed they deserve.