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AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 4950 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,899,360 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($38,250,966). 2590 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$137M
Revenue FY2025
4,950
Funders on record
$484M
Grants received
$1.2B
Net assets
2590/4950 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 877 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−20% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 877 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($789M) Expenses 100 ($814M) Net assets 100 ($1.1B)2018 Revenue 98 ($770M) Expenses 91 ($741M) Net assets 98 ($1.1B)2019 Revenue 91 ($720M) Expenses 90 ($731M) Net assets 100 ($1.1B)2020 Revenue 73 ($576M) Expenses 69 ($564M) Net assets 107 ($1.2B)2021 Revenue 93 ($734M) Expenses 71 ($578M) Net assets 125 ($1.4B)2022 Revenue 86 ($674M) Expenses 82 ($669M) Net assets 113 ($1.3B)2023 Revenue 83 ($657M) Expenses 93 ($756M) Net assets 115 ($1.3B)2024 Revenue 92 ($724M) Expenses 97 ($792M) Net assets 116 ($1.3B)2025 Revenue 17 ($137M) Expenses 20 ($167M) Net assets 111 ($1.2B)
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Revenue (17)Expenses (20)Net assets (111)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25M
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$29M
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$11M
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$12M
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$157M
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$5.3M
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$99M
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$68M
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$30M
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2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1071 funders to 1840 funders, grant income rose $26M → $68M.

321 of 4950 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $3.7M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest ACS Development Company II Inc); $50k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund); $4k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 4950 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

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 30 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 30 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC.

8%
largest funder
19%
top three
~54
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 10% · 2018 8% · 2019 9% · 2020 16% · 2021 9% · 2022 10% · 2023 10%broadly stable.

“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

56% of AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 51 states in all.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208M arriving through sponsors registered in 46 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4950 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.3M on record.

Federal$28.3M
grants $28.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$28.3M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Georgia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 5%Fundraising 18%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 32 states

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Part of a family of 17 related entities

  • Brightedge LLC · disregarded
  • Acs Cancer Action Network Inc · exempt
  • Acs Development I Inc · exempt
  • Acs Capital Inc · exempt
  • American Cancer Society Inc Puerto Rico · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC?
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 4950 organizations whose IRS filings report $483,899,360 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($38,250,966). 2590 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 4950 organizations giving $483,899,360 in grants to AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC, 2590 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,250,966 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 4950funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing