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Young Texans Against Cancer

YOUNG TEXANS AGAINST CANCER (ytac) is an independent, nonprofit organization comprised of men and women who have been affected by cancer or are seeking to become more actively involved in the cancer community.

$457k
Granted FY2018
14
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2018.

Health$579kHuman Services$73k
02FY2018 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $400,120, the rows itemized in this filing. The $456,919 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $56,799 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.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $350k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$31,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$50,000
BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK$45,000
LEUKEMIA TEXAS$45,000
MEDICAL CITY - CAMP IHOPE$40,000
HOPE KIDS NORTH TEXAS$35,000
METHODIST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$34,000
1 MILLION FOR ANNA FOUNDATION$31,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$20,000
MOMMIES IN NEED$20,000
LOVING LIBBY FOUNDATION$16,764
HIS GRACE FOUNDATION$16,744
THRIVEWELL$16,612
HEROES FOR CHILDREN$15,000
RUTLEDGE FOUNDATION$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HIS GRACE FOUNDATION: $17k → 16%MOMMIES IN NEED: $21k → 14%MOMMIES IN NEED: $20k → 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$235k · 5 repeat orgs$418k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$235k
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+145%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthHuman ServicesMembership BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TC
    THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $49k · revenue +317%
  • MI
    MOMMIES IN NEED
    2× · 2017–2018 · $41k · revenue ×12
  • HI
    HOPEKIDS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • US
    UT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • D
    DKMSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +50%
  • CL
    Carson Leslie Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +145%
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
Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas inc

Children's cancer fund champions kids in their fight against cancer through strategic investments in research and care in north texas.

Health
2
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
5
Oncology Consultants Cancer Research Fun
Health
6
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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7
Cancer Can't Inc
Philanthropy
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
Pediatric Cancer Foundation

Pediatric cancer foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that raises funds for groundbreaking research and early phase clinical trials to eradicate childhood cancer. these trials are conducted by world renowned doctors at the…

Health
10
Young Texans Against Cancer Dallas

Young Texans Against Cancer is a network of motivated young professionals collectively working together to raise awareness and funds to support the local Dallas cancer community. The Dallas chapter was established in 2007, as part of a…

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11
We Beat Cancer
Philanthropy
12
Children's Cancer Research Fund

Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heroes for Children; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $48,612 · HealthTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATIONTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $45,000 · HealthTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INCLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $45,000 · HealthLEUKEMIATEXAS INCHOPEKIDS INC: $40,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INCUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $40,000 · HealthUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMSDKMS: $30,000 · HealthDKMSCarson Leslie Foundation: $30,000 · HealthCarson Leslie FoundationAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCMemorial Hermann Foundation: $20,000 · HealthMemorial Hermann FoundationRUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUN…1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Other1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATIONDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc: $34,000 · OtherDallas Methodist Hospitals F…MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $24,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 · OtherHEROES FOR CHILDRENCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $6,000 · OtherCAMP IHOPE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Membership BenefitCAMP IHOPE F…MOMMIES IN NEED: $41,000 · Human ServicesMOMMIES IN…His Grace Foundation: $16,744 · Human ServicesHis Grace …LOVING LIBBIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $16,764 · Food & Nutrition
Health$343,612Other$164,000Membership Benefit$70,000Human Services$57,744Food & Nutrition$16,764

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION: $48,612 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMOMMIES IN NEED: $41,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $40,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget1 MILLION 4 ANNA FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc: $34,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDKMS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarson Leslie Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hermann Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTLEDGE CANCER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHEROES FOR CHILDREN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCandlelighters Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Communities Foundatio…The Dallas FoundationThe Moody FoundationThe Jordan Spieth Fam…Texas Instruments Fou…United Way WorldwideCommunity Foundation …The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX22.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Jordan Spieth Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Young Texans Against Cancer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Texans Against Cancer. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Young Texans Against Cancer?

    Find your warmest path to Young Texans Against Cancer through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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