# Brave Like Gabe Foundation

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## TL;DR

A US foundation set up by the runner Gabe Grunewald, who had adenoid cystic carcinoma, that funds rare cancer research and runs free exercise programmes for cancer survivors.

## Summary

The Brave Like Gabe Foundation was founded by Gabriele "Gabe" Grunewald, a professional runner who had a rare salivary gland cancer, to support rare cancer research and to help cancer survivors through physical activity, according to its mission page; she died in June 2019. Its impact page lists the grants it has made: more than $450,000 to the Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation since 2018 from its annual 5K, $500,000 with Brooks Running for the Brave Fellowship for post-doctoral researchers at Fred Hutch (2020 to 2023) and a 2024 grant to Fred Hutch's TRACER rare cancer initiative, a three-year $600,000 grant from 2022 to Memorial Sloan Kettering on outcome disparities for Black women with endometrial cancers, a three-year $300,000 grant from 2023 to the University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center for paediatric osteosarcoma, and a grant to Dana-Farber for a study of implantable microdevices that test drug responses in adenoid cystic carcinoma tumours. It also runs a free 12-week walk-run training programme for cancer survivors in Minneapolis. The IRS lists it in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with tax exemption from March 2019.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-05
- Also known as: Brave Like Gabe
- City: Saint Paul, MN, US
- Type: consortium
- Website: https://www.bravelikegabe.org

## Sources

- Brave Like Gabe: mission: https://www.bravelikegabe.org/mission
- Brave Like Gabe: impact and grants: https://www.bravelikegabe.org/impact
- Cancer Survivor Movement Program: https://www.bravelikegabe.org/cancer-survivor-movement-program
- IRS record (via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer): https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/825528605

## Connected records

- institutions: [Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/accrf/), [Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/dana-farber/), [Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/fred-hutch/), [Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota](https://onco.cc/institutions/minnesota-masonic/), [Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/mskcc/), [Rare Cancer Research Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/rare-cancer-research-foundation/)
- cancers: [Adenoid cystic carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/adenoid-cystic-carcinoma/), [Endometrial cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/endometrial/), [Osteosarcoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/osteosarcoma/), [Salivary gland cancers](https://onco.cc/cancers/salivary-gland/)

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