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American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc

Driven by a vision to end cancer as we know it for everyone, the american cancer society cancer action network, inc.

$505k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.5MCivil Rights$610kHuman Services$375kCommunity Improvement$325kPublic Benefit$278kCrime & Legal$140kInternational$119kEducation$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $336k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Health Law Program$100,000
Keep Americans Covered$100,000
National LGBT Cancer Network Inc$80,000
Together for Hope$56,250
Center Forward$35,000
National Urban League Inc$25,000
Franklin Center for Global Policy Exchange$25,000
National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc$25,000
Partnership to Protect Coverage$15,000
Jack and Jill of America Foundation Inc$10,000
ZERO Prostate Cancer$10,000
David A Winston Health Policy Fellowship$7,500
Florida Voices for Health Inc$7,500
Coalition for Health Funding$6,835
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%National Urban League Inc: $25k → 17%Center for Transforming Communities: $25k → 17%Georgia First Inc: $600k → 12%INDIANA YOUTH GROUP INC: $50k → 16%Georgia First Inc: $300k → 12%National Council of Urban Indian Health: $25k → 14%National Council of Urban Indian Health: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OR
SD
IN
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 23 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
34

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

91%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’22’23’24’25
HealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $120k · revenue +30%
  • CH
    CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +1%
  • CO
    COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +23%
  • TK
    TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • AN
    American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $79k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
National Coalition On Health Care

The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…

Health
2
Consumer Health Coalition

Consumer Health Coalition (CHC) is dedicated to inspiring a consumer movement to advance the health and enhance access to quality and affordable healthcare. We further our mission by targeting populations that are at risk for experiencing…

Health
3
National Association of Health Services Executives

Promoting the advancement of black healthcare professionals.

Health
4
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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5
CommonHealth Action

CommonHealth ACTION develops people and organizations to produce health through equitable policies, programs, and practices.

Health
6
California Black Health Network

The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…

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7
National Health Council Inc

To provide a united voice for people with chronic diseases and disabilities.

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8
Coalition for Americas Health Inc

To prevent and control chronic diseases, also called non-communicable diseases or NCDs, in the region of the Americas by promoting an environment conducive to health, well-being, social and economic development. This mission is…

Health
9
American College Health Association

The american college health association (acha) serves as the principal leadership organization for advancing the health of college students and campus communities through advocacy, education, and research.

Health
10
America's Agenda Health Care for All

To organize, educate, and build consensus among a wide range of labor, business, health care, citizen groups, and other diverse interests in support of adoption of health care policies that will assure affordable access to high quality…

Health
11
Center for African American Health

The Center works to address health disparities in the underserved African American community by offering culturally competent behavioral and physical health education and outreach that empowers community members to overcome the root causes…

Community Improvement
12
Council for National Policy

To provide information about public policy and national policy alternatives to leaders in business, government, religion, and academia.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Oregonians for a Smoke Free Tomorrow. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
28/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $197,484 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTER…University of Wisconsin Madison: $164,421 · OtherUniversity of Wisconsin MadisonTOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND: $100,000 · OtherTOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUNDKEEP AMERICANS COVERED: $100,000 · OtherKEEP AMERICANS COVEREDCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 · OtherCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTI…COUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $82,500 · OtherCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTSNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $75,000 · OtherNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOM…NATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $72,000 · OtherTHE RUSH CENTER INC: $71,900 · OtherFranklin Center for Global Policy Exchange: $62,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $59,800 · OtherOregonians for a Smoke Free Tomorrow: $50,000 · Other+13 more: $255,000 · Other+13 moreGEORGIA FIRST INC: $900,000 · Human ServicesGEORGIA FIRST INCIYG INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL COUNCIL OF URBAN INDIAN HEALTH: $35,000 · Human Services+2 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL LGBT CANCER NETWORK INC: $196,660 · HealthNATIONAL LGBT CANCE…NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC: $120,000 · HealthNATIONAL HEALTH LAW…ASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM: $55,000 · HealthASIAN & PACIFIC ISL…CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $50,000 · HealthCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACC…NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH: $40,000 · HealthZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $40,000 · HealthEqual Hope: $37,500 · HealthTOUCH4LIFE INC: $30,000 · HealthPARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT COVERAGE: $30,000 · HealthLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Health+9 more: $128,670 · Health+9 moreBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUI…Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional: $90,000 · Civil RightsAsian Pacific Am…American Nonsmokers Rights Foundation: $79,080 · Civil RightsAmerican Nonsmok…MISSISSIPPI FAITH BASED COALITION FOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsMISSISSIPPI FAIT…NATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $50,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL HISPANI…Transform 314: $45,000 · Civil RightsTransform 314CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Civil RightsTOGETHER FOR HOPE: $331,250 · Community ImprovementTOGETHER …NATIONAL HISPANIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL …Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $140,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FORWARD: $105,000 · Public BenefitALABAMA ARISE: $20,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,380,605Human Services$1,035,000Health$755,330Civil Rights$649,080Community Improvement$381,250Crime & Legal$140,000Public Benefit$125,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGIA FIRST INC: $900,000 over 2y, 77% of budgetTOGETHER FOR HOPE: $331,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL LGBT CANCER NETWORK INC: $196,660 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $140,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FORWARD: $105,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTOBACCO-FREE KIDS ACTION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEEP AMERICANS COVERED: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAsian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $82,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Nonsmokers Rights Foundation: $79,080 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN HEALTH BOARD: $72,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RUSH CENTER INC: $71,900 over 1y, 11% of budgetFranklin Center for Global Policy Exchange: $62,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI FAITH BASED COALITION FOR COMMUNITY RENEWAL INC: $60,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetASIAN & PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN HEALTH FORUM: $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIYG INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS OF STATE LEGISLATORS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOregonians for a Smoke Free Tomorrow: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNational Black Caucus of State Legislators: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEqual Hope: $37,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF URBAN INDIAN HEALTH: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTOUCH4LIFE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetDouglass Leadership Institute Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT COVERAGE: $30,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF THE DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD WELL ALLIANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEART COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS POLITICAL EDU CATION AND LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALABAMA ARISE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDAVID A WINSTON HEALTH POLICY FELLOWSHIP: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR HEALTH FUNDING: $13,670 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetJack and Jill of America Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Medical Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pharmaceutical Resear…AARPThe Robert Wood Johns…American Cancer Socie…Community Catalyst IncKaiser Foundation Hea…Everytown for Gun Saf…Ctia - the Wireless A…Edison Electric Insti…WK Kellogg FoundationNatural Resources Def…The Pew Charitable Tr…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC34.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · AARP · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · American Cancer Society Inc · Community Catalyst Inc · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Edison Electric Institute Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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