Texas · Nonprofit
A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES
A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,884 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($137,825). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $539k
- Net assets
- $0
What A Shelter for Cancer Families does
Mission
Provide free tangible support in the texas medical center (tmc) to families affected by cancer based on their needs, regardless of age, cancer type, treatment status or income. Support includes celebrations important during cancer treatment and short term housing to out-of-town families seeking treatment in the tmc.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Because of the significant uptick in the number of non profit organizations focused on funding sarcoma research (a more than 20-fold increase), ASCF board of directors made the unamimous decision in 10/2017 to focus its efforts going forward on providing those services that were not otherwise being adequately provided in an effort to minimize any duplication of effort. ASCF looks forward to handing the baton to the more than 40+ and growing number of sarcoma research organizations who will build upon the strong foundation ASCF created starting in 2001. In 1/2023, the Board voted to end the Navigation Program as ASCF did not have enough trained volunteers to continue the program and did not have the staff available to lead and train new volunteers
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
A Shelter for Cancer Families provides free tangible support in the Texas Medical Center (TMC) to families affected by cancer based on their needs, regardless of age, cancer type, treatment status or income. Support for families to celebrate what is important to them in the midst of the cancer journey and short term temporary housing to out-of-town families seeking cancer care in the TMC.
$395,791 spent$91,054 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $395,791.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $3.8M to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 4% · 2020 14% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $7k → $97k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 33% · 2022 31% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $236k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES?
- A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $538,884 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($137,825). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $538,884 in grants to A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $137,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing