How much does The Cancer Challenge give?

The Cancer Challenge reported 3 itemized grants totaling $195,000, out of $200,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Cancer Challenge fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).

Who are The Cancer Challenge's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hope Cancer Resources ($1.1M), Washington Regional Medical Foundation ($670k), St Francis House Nwa Inc ($588k).

Does The Cancer Challenge fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Cancer Challenge?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Alice L Walton Foundation, Wal-Mart Foundation.

Where is The Cancer Challenge based?

The Cancer Challenge is based in AR.

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Arkansas · Public charity

The Cancer Challenge

We are the connector that brings the community together to collaborate, influence, and fund the prevention, treatment, and rebuilding of lives after cancer.

$200k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 3
Itemized grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $195k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $80,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 7; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $345k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Cancer Challenge funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	3	$195k	0%
FY2023	3	$195k	0%
FY2022	5	$279k	0%
FY2021	6	$349k	17%
FY2020	5	$240k	0%
FY2019	7	$400k	0%
FY2018	7	$540k	0%
FY2017	7	$539k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.7M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hope Cancer Resources	$1,065,000	8	6%
Washington Regional Medical Foundation	$670,000	8	2%
St Francis House Nwa Inc	$587,500	8	1%
Oncology Supportive Services Inc	$150,000	3	100%
Circle of Life	$122,500	6	0%
Mercy Health Foundation Northwest Arkansas	$66,500	3	1%
Arkansas Children's Foundation	$50,000	5	0%
I Am Mercy Foundation A/K/A I Am the Vine Foundation	$25,250	2	2%

The Cancer Challenge supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Alice L Walton Foundation · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Cancer Challenge

How much does The Cancer Challenge give?: The Cancer Challenge reported 3 itemized grants totaling $195,000, out of $200,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Cancer Challenge fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are The Cancer Challenge's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Hope Cancer Resources ($1.1M), Washington Regional Medical Foundation ($670k), St Francis House Nwa Inc ($588k).
Does The Cancer Challenge fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cancer Challenge?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Alice L Walton Foundation, Wal-Mart Foundation.
Where is The Cancer Challenge based?: The Cancer Challenge is based in AR.