Maryland · Nonprofit
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT (Maryland) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,528,105 to it, the largest being GUNZENHAUSER CHAPIN FUND ($845,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What American Childhood Cancer Organizat does
Mission
We are dedicated to making childhood cancer a national child health priority through shaping policy, supporting research, raising awareness, and providing educational resourcees and innovative programs to children with cancer, survivors, and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Books and informational materials - largest publisher and distributor of up to date childhood cancer books in the country for children and adolescents with cancer, their families and caregivers. Additional resources for school teachers facing a childhood cancer diagnosis in the classroom. Most utilized website about childhood cancer in the country with greater than 3.2 million searches annually.
$244,613 spent18% of program spendingAdvocacy - through acco's "what about kids?" advocacy initiative, acco has proven that states play a critical role in overcoming the national disparity between adult and childhood cancer research, treatment, and support. As the oldest grassroots voice of families of children treated for cancer in the us, acco is leading the way in advocating to secure state- based funding for childhood research.
$496,916 spent$111,117 earned by the program37% of program spendingAwareness: founder of go gold and pjammin for childhood cancer awareness; was the founding organization of the international gold ribbon symbol for childhood cancer awareness and the founder and host of the national childhood cancer awareness tree.
$591,052 spent$405,513 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,332,581.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.1M to $3.0M (+43%).
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: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Ruth Hoffman
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $120k → $162k.
8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 83% · 2019 75% · 2020 32% · 2021 61% · 2022 45% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT: 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 AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT?
- AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT (Maryland) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,528,105 to it, the largest being GUNZENHAUSER CHAPIN FUND ($845,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,528,105 in grants to AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT?
- GUNZENHAUSER CHAPIN FUND is the largest funder on record, with $845,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN CHILDHOOD CANCER ORGANIZAT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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