In 2025, CREATE Health Translational Cancer Center received a donation from the Mrs Berta Kamprad’s Cancer Foundation of 420 million SEK. This is the single largest donation to Lund University, since its founding in 1666. The funds are distributed over a five-year period and dedicated to translational cancer research within the L2CancerBridge program.

Other previous and current funding for the CREATE Health Translational Cancer Center has been received from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (2006-2010), VINNOVA (2011-2015), and Lund University (2011-2015). CREATE Health has further received funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2011-2015) as well as substantial donations from, amongst others, Biltema Foundation (2015-2016), Mats Paulson Foundation (2016 – ongoing) and Cancera Foundation (2016 – ongoing). The CanFaster doctoral and post-doctoral programs are mainly supported by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND program, as part of the Horizon 2020 framework.