Alabama · Nonprofit
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,821,813 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($461,080). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $65k
What Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala does
Mission
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The foundation sponsors several events for the purpose of raising funds for breast cancer research across alabama. Funds expand innovative and life-saving research at institutes across the state.
$1,375,112 spentof which $1,123,043 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,375,112.
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 2018 to 2019, from $1.0M to $224k (−78%).
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 4% · 2023 12% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
105% of BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Elizabeth Bradner Davis
President & CEO
Board chair
Brian Grainger
Chair and treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $83k → $270k.
9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 37% · 2019 39% · 2020 27% · 2021 27% · 2022 27% · 2023 27% — 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
59% of BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
89% of BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $754k 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 RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA?
- BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA (Alabama) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,821,813 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($461,080). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,821,813 in grants to BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $461,080 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF ALA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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