New York · Nonprofit
Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester
Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,334,722 to it, the largest being TR UW LAURA E MOSHERCANCER ACTION 14-221310 ($343,583). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $980k
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester does
Mission
To create welcoming communities of no cost support to those living with cancer - men, women, teens, and children - along with their families and friends. Our innovative program is an essential complement to medical care, providing networking and support groups, workshops, education and social activities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Providing educational, social and mental health support programs at no cost for people of all ages impacted by any type of cancer - adults,teens and children - along with their family, friends, and caregivers. Locally, we deliver over 1,000 programs to over 6,605 people annually through our volunteers, mental health facilitators and staff.
$749,608 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $749,608.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $3.9M (+79%).
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 1% · 2022 13% · 2024 5% · 2025 20% · 2026 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
James Love
CEO
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $55k → $121k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
37% 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 Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 30% · 2021 46% · 2022 34% · 2023 25% — 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
43% of Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
83% of Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $426k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 175 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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 Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester: 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 Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester?
- Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester (New York) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,334,722 to it, the largest being TR UW LAURA E MOSHERCANCER ACTION 14-221310 ($343,583). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,334,722 in grants to Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester?
- TR UW LAURA E MOSHERCANCER ACTION 14-221310 is the largest funder on record, with $343,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cancer Action Inc DBA Cancer Support Community Rochester find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 36 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