Texas · Nonprofit
CANCARE INC
CANCARE INC (Texas) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,840,231 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($330,530). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 72
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Cancare Inc does
Mission
Cancare envisions a world where no one faces cancer alone. We provide hope and healing for the cancer community by ensuring that anyone facing cancer can have a survivor by their side.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, cancare supported 11,500 cancer patients and caregivers through our one-on-one support, healthcare visitation, and support group programs. Cancare volunteers provided 2,414 service hours within healthcare facilities.
$1,103,912 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,103,912.
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 $582k to $2.1M (+254%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 18% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of CANCARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% 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
Darcie Wells
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $260k → $374k.
11 of 72 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $216k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cancare Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CANCARE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CANCARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 72 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
CANCARE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
48% 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 CANCARE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 31% · 2019 19% · 2020 16% · 2021 13% · 2022 19% · 2023 24% — 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
46% of CANCARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
96% of CANCARE INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $807k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CANCARE INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,394 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,394 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CANCARE INC
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cancare Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANCARE INC: 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 CANCARE INC?
- CANCARE INC (Texas) receives grants from 72 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,840,231 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($330,530). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANCARE INC have?
- IRS filings report 72 organizations giving $2,840,231 in grants to CANCARE INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANCARE INC?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $330,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANCARE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 72 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