California · Nonprofit
BREAST CANCER ACTION
BREAST CANCER ACTION (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,766 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $96k
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $18k
What Breast Cancer Action does
Mission
Breast Cancer Action's mission is to achieve health justice for all women at risk of or living with breast cancer.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Rapid response to protect public health Breast Cancer Action is the trusted watchdog for the breast cancer community, monitoring legislative, agency, and treatment-related issues. We empower our members with tools to contact decision-makers and advocate for health justice. In the past year, we have focused on disparities in treatment and outcomes, highlighting systemic gaps that burden marginalized communities. We continued our advocacy against environmental toxins, including pfas, pesticides, and pollutants tied to fossil fuel reliance, emphasizing the connections to environmental racism and public health harm.
$226,950 spentof which $210,000 as grants100% of program spendingUnbiased, patient-centered resources we continue to be a trusted resource for those affected by breast cancer, providing unbiased, evidence-based information to support informed decision-making. Breast Cancer Action remains steadfast in addressing the root causes of the breast cancer crisis while advocating for systemic changes that promote health justice and environmental sustainability.
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $226,950.
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 2023 to 2024, from $463k to $151k (−67%).
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: 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BREAST CANCER ACTION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $67k → $257k.
14 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 BREAST CANCER ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
BREAST CANCER ACTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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 BREAST CANCER ACTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 47% · 2019 37% · 2020 30% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 19% — 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
49% of BREAST CANCER ACTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
52% of BREAST CANCER ACTION'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 $954k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
BREAST CANCER ACTION's revenue fell 87% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 57 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2026
Organizations like BREAST CANCER ACTION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAST CANCER ACTION: 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 BREAST CANCER ACTION?
- BREAST CANCER ACTION (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,766 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($400,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BREAST CANCER ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $1,971,766 in grants to BREAST CANCER ACTION, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAST CANCER ACTION?
- THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAST CANCER ACTION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 51 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing