Nonprofit
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,920 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($28,910). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $120M
What Canadian Cancer Society does
Mission
The Canadian Cancer Society is a national cancer charity. In trusted partnership with donors and volunteers our mission is to improve the lives of all those affected by cancer through world-class research transformative advocacy and compassionate support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research: research funding and costs of supporting research programs. Research funding projects personnel and research centres focuses on the advancement of knowledge in cancer risk reduction and prevention screening diagnosis treatment cure supportive care survivorship and end-of-life care through basic-biomedical translational clinical behavioural and population-based research. Supporting research programs include activities related to the peer-review process program administration research forums advisory committees and linkage with researchers.
$36,903,091 spentof which $34,039,772 as grants41% of program spendingPrograms: consist of health promotion for canadians tobacco cessation healthy eating physical activity reduced exposure to carcinogens screening and of support to cancer patients and caregivers during and beyond the cancer journey. This includes information emotional and practical support programs are delivered in the community by telephone in print or through the internet website and social media. Examples of programs are community outreach workplace wellness smoking cessation information and support services lodges transportation financial assistance wigs prosthesis and related activities.
$49,338,340 spentof which $2,990,780 as grants55% of program spendingAdvocacy: activities related to influencing policy makers to implement public policies and programs that enable the adoption of healthy behaviours reduction of occupational and environmental carcinogens access to organized cancer screening programs and quality cancer care from diagnosis to palliative care financial support for cancer patients and caregivers and investment in cancer research activities. This work includes developing positions raising public awareness mobilizing communities building coalitions and lobbying.
$3,904,144 spentof which $79,309 as grants4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $90,145,575.
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 2021 to 2022, from $185M to $200M (+8%).
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: 2017 10% · 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 11% · 2024 12% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Andrea Seale
CEO and secretary
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $6k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY’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
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Against its field
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
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.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY: 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 CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY?
- CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,920 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($28,910). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $34,920 in grants to CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY?
- PLEDGELING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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