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Bay Area Young Survivors

Bay Area Young Survivors (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,330 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($104,264). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$632k
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$666k
Net assets
$1.0M
7/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 78%
01What it does

What Bay Area Young Survivors does

Mission

Bay Area Young Survivors (BAYS) is a support and action group for people diagnosed at age forty-five or younger in the SF Bay Area who are living with breast cancer. The goal of BAYS is to break the isolation of living with breast cancer by providing a community built on compassion, understanding, hope, and inspiration.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community Building: -We coordinate diverse community-building events that offer a rich environment to support the emotional needs of our members. Examples include-Physical challenge events designed to help us get our bodies back (hikes, kayaking and paddle boarding, etc.) -Educational events on a variety of cancer-related topics hosted by doctors and other health professionals -Social events such as holiday gatherings and clothing swaps where we share wigs, medical garments, breast prostheses, and clothes for our changing bodies (we do not underestimate the power of something new to help feel better, especially with the extreme body changes that occur during treatment) -The construction of a BAYS memorial garden where our community can gather to honor and remember the members weve lost.Social and Educational Events-Over 303 BAYS-MITCmembers attended online and in person social and community building events: 10 members (and 8 volunteers)attended Garden Volunteer days, 5 members participated in Warriors basketball Cancer Awareness night, 15 membersattended a clothing swap, 6 members attended a member-hosted BAYS community cooking class, around 24 members attended SF Pride, 50…

    $122,613 spent
    83% of program spending
  2. Financial Assistance: We created the BAYS Steps Up Fund to offer financial assistance to our members who struggle financially while undergoing treatment and beyond. We also offer scholarships to attend cancer-related scientific and support conferences and/or grants for self care.21 members received financial assistance.13 members received financial assistance to attend Commonweal Cancer treatments.3 members received financial assistance to attend BACC Conference.

    $14,545 spent
    10% of program spending
  3. Support Services: -We offer peer- and professionally- led support group meetings (with separate additional support groups for our members with metastatic disease who are facing unique end-of-life issues)-We also offer unstructured support groups over coffee or a meal-We host an online network for communication and virtual support. -We offer writing workshops and coordinate additional avenues to share written expression through public readings and publications.Online Support Groups-We offered 59 support groups from January-December 2024. a) 2-3 monthly support groups via Zoom/Google Meet with an average attendance of 4-5 per support groupb) We also did 4 in person support groups and we estimate 5 attendees per support group. c) We also offered 2 monthly support groups via Zoom for our MITC members (we estimate 4-5 people attended each of the 24 online sessions)Unstructured support-50 members attended unstructured support meet-ups (e.g., coffee, lunches)Hosted discussion forum-1036 members of our online discussion and support forumWriting Workshops-We hosted 6 writing workshops with 7-10 members attending eachMITC Unstructured Support Social and Educational Events-Approximately 25…

    $10,262 spent
    7% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $147,420.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($379k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($437k)2019 Revenue 44 ($168k) Expenses 109 ($48k) Net assets 127 ($556k)2020 Revenue 18 ($68k) Expenses 87 ($39k) Net assets 134 ($585k)2021 Revenue 8 ($32k) Expenses 107 ($47k) Net assets 130 ($570k)2022 Revenue 11 ($42k) Expenses 162 ($72k) Net assets 123 ($539k)2023 Revenue 53 ($200k) Expenses 390 ($172k) Net assets 130 ($567k)2024 Revenue 167 ($632k) Expenses 363 ($160k) Net assets 238 ($1.0M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (167)Expenses (363)Net assets (238)Peer revenue range

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 $567k to $1.0M (+83%).

$437k
$556k
$585k
$570k
$539k
$567k
$1.0M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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2019
2020
2021
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Bay Area Young Survivors’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$335k
’18
$119k
’19
$29k
’20
−$16k
’21
−$30k
’22
$28k
’23
$472k
’24
78
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed16141817161413
Joined·+1+5+6+5+4+4
No longer listed·317665
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $14k → $152k.

11 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 Bay Area Young Survivors’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

Bay Area Young Survivors has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

72% 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 Bay Area Young Survivors.

16%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 56% · 2019 68% · 2020 48% · 2021 60% · 2022 63% · 2023 33% — 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

33% of Bay Area Young Survivors's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 32% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

69% of Bay Area Young Survivors's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $210k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from California funders.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $457k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Bay Area Young Survivors runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin75% · top quartile
Months of reserve77.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Bay Area Young Survivors?
Bay Area Young Survivors (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $666,330 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($104,264). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Bay Area Young Survivors have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $666,330 in grants to Bay Area Young Survivors, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Bay Area Young Survivors?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $104,264 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Bay Area Young Survivors find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 22 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