St. Baldrick’s has awarded over $368 million in research grants, with $20,018,890 raised in 2025 and $22,166,554 in 2024.

Across major campaigns, breast cancer awareness has raised well over $6 billion, based on documented lifetime totals.

As of November 6, 2025, Games Done Quick has raised about $57.36 million for charity across all marathons.

Penn State THON has raised more than $254 million for pediatric cancer through Four Diamonds.

Best current estimates put global COVID-19 research funding in the tens of billions of dollars since 2020, though totals vary by method.

Global COVID-19 fiscal support totaled about $16 trillion, with added multilateral and health outlays pushing the worldwide bill even higher.

Worldwide fundraising for cancer totals tens of billions each year; no single ledger tracks every dollar across charities, events, and governments.

ALS fundraising exceeds $220 million from the Ice Bucket Challenge alone, with ongoing charity and public programs adding hundreds of millions yearly.

No single lifetime total exists; recent year figures show multibillion-dollar giving across the main Red Cross bodies worldwide.