Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ABCD INC
ABCD INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,967,056 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($311,661). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Abcd Inc does
Mission
Abcd: after breast cancer diagnosis nurtures hope and restores confidence in anyone impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis. Our vision, as articulated by our founder, the late melodie wilson oldenburg, is: "no one should go through breast cancer alone."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Breast cancer support - since 1999, abcd has been singularly-focused on providing free, one-to-one emotional support to thousands of people around the united states and the world who are impacted by breast cancer - patients, survivors, previvors / people at high-risk of developing breast cancer, people living with metastatic disease/stage iv, families, and friends. Our signature service is creating a unique match between someone who needs support (abcd participant) and an abcd mentor who not only share a similar diagnosis and treatment plan, but also have similar ages, common interests, personal characteristics, career paths, and family dynamics. Abcd mentors are volunteers who are at least one year past completing their breast cancer treatment (except for hormone replacement therapy), are living with metastatic disease (mbc), are a previvor, or are a care partner. Every mentor is vetted and interviewed by abcd staff and then participates in live virtual meet-ups and modular education sessions to learn how to provide emotional support. We currently have 300+ racially and ethnically diverse mentors located across the united states, ranging in age from 31 to 85, and representing a…
$906,373 spentof which $50,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $906,373.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $521k to $855k (+64%).
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: 2017 2% · 2020 15% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ABCD INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Ellen Friebert Schupper
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $120k → $219k.
13 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 ABCD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 funders by total. 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
ABCD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 ABCD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 44% · 2019 51% · 2020 29% · 2021 23% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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
41% of ABCD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
68% of ABCD INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $653k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Against its field
ABCD INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ABCD INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ABCD INC: 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 ABCD INC?
- ABCD INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,967,056 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($311,661). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ABCD INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $1,967,056 in grants to ABCD INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ABCD INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $311,661 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ABCD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 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