New York · Nonprofit
ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION
ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,511,366 to it, the largest being BLUE BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC ($940,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318k
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $344k
What Animal Cancer Foundation does
Mission
Animal Cancer Foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and in companion animals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Animal Cancer Foundation has embarked on the canine cancer genome project ("ccgp") sponsored by blue buffalo foundation to enable a multi-institutional scientific investigational collaboration to map canine cancer genomes from samples donated to acf by the canine cancer oncology genomics consortium (ccogc) and to place those datasets in the public domain for use by all cancer research. This multi-year project will enable cancer scientists to build more robust comparative datasets and to further cancer research in pets and people. After a competitive selection process, the translational genomics research institute was selected as the principal investigators for this project.acf paid $410,000 in september 2024 and $100,000 in june 2025 for ccgp. An additional $200,000 is committed to ccgp.acf comparative oncology grants awards are research grants of $50,000 for one to two year comparative oncology research that is identified by a scientific advisory council as best-in-field early development that will have results poised to attract further government and large institutional funding and that encourage open share discovery to speed new scientific information and treatment to the…
$632,172 spentof which $510,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $632,172.
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 2024 to 2025, from $898k to $360k (−60%).
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: 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Barbara Cohen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $408k → $93k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION’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
ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 95% · 2019 71% · 2020 70% · 2021 64% · 2022 60% · 2023 54% — 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
29% of ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k 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.
Against its field
ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION's revenue fell 54% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION?
- ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,511,366 to it, the largest being BLUE BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC ($940,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,511,366 in grants to ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION?
- BLUE BUFFALO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $940,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANIMAL CANCER FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 24 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