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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
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 2024.

Health$2.7M
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $195,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$345k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES$80,000
COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE$60,000
WASHINGTON REGIONAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION$55,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NW ARKANSAS: $25k → 8%ONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $50k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NW ARKANSAS: $24k → 8%ONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $50k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NW ARKANSAS: $18k → 8%ONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES: $50k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NW ARKANSAS: $14k → 8%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $110k → 14%MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NW ARKANSAS: $12k → 8%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $110k → 14%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $75k → 14%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $75k → 14%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $60k → 14%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $58k → 14%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY CLINIC AT ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $50k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $200k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $200k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $150k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $140k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $115k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $100k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $80k → 14%NARTI DBA HOPE CANCER RESOURCES: $80k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $25k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $25k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $25k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $20k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $18k → 14%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 8 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
0

Total granted

$2.7M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • HC
    Hope Cancer Resources
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +38%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $588k · revenue +208%
  • OS
    ONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +848% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    Arkansas Hospice Inc

    To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…

    Human Services
    2
    Hospice Foundation of the Ozarks Inc
    Health
    3
    Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

    Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

    Human Services
    4
    Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care Inc

    To promote excellence in health care through evaluation and education

    Health
    5
    Arkansas Hospice Foundation Inc

    Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…

    Health
    6
    Mercy Health Northwest Arkansas Communities

    As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

    Health
    7
    Mercy Health

    Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

    —
    8
    Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities

    As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

    —
    9
    Mercy Health Foundation St Francis

    As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

    —
    10
    Mission Clinical Services

    As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

    Health
    11
    Wyoming Foundation for Cancer Care Inc

    To reduce the impact of cancer on wyoming residents diagnosed with cancer by providing non-medical, charitable financial assistance and by providing free education and screening opportunities to residents not diagnosed with cancer.

    Human Services
    12
    North Arkansas Regional Medical Center

    We are dedicated to providing quality services that are comprehensive and affordable. we expect services to be delivered compassionately, appropriately, responsibly, safely and efficiently.

    Health
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Northwest Arkansas; the most unlike its peers is I Am Mercy Foundation a/K/a I Am the Vine Foundation. 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

    8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    5/8
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Hope Cancer Resources: $1,065,000 · HealthHope Cancer ResourcesST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC: $587,500 · HealthST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INCONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES INC: $150,000 · HealthONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES INC+1 more: $50,000 · HealthWashington Regional Medical Foundation: $670,000 · Human ServicesWashington Regional Medical…Circle of Life: $122,500 · PhilanthropyI AM MERCY FOUNDATION A/K/A I AM THE VINE FOUNDATION: $25,250 · PhilanthropyMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $66,500 · Other
    Health$1,852,500Human Services$670,000Philanthropy$147,750Other$66,500

    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 budgetHope Cancer Resources: $1,065,000 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetWashington Regional Medical Foundation: $670,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE NWA INC: $587,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetONCOLOGY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetCircle of Life: $122,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION NORTHWEST ARKANSAS: $66,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetI AM MERCY FOUNDATION A/K/A I AM THE VINE FOUNDATION: $25,250 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

    Arkansas Community Fo…Alice L Walton Founda…Wal-Mart FoundationArvest FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization The Cancer Challenge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cancer Challenge. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
      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 8 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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