California · Nonprofit
Cancer Help Desk
Cancer Help Desk (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,320 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($20,719). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $53k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $33k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Cancer Help Desk does
Mission
Provide personalized education resources and treatment choices to anyone dealing with cancer and act as a neutral liaison to unify individuals with cancer oncology providers and researchers in order to dynamically improve cancer care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Cancer Help Desk provided free comprehensive guidance to help individuals facing cancer access the best possible care and resources. Each patient was paired with an oncology nurse navigator and a PhD scientist who reviewed medical history identified potential additional testing to refine treatment plans and answered questions from patients and caregivers. Patients received customized resource guides tailored to their needs and when appropriate an initial list of potential clinical trial opportunities.
$40,356 spent78% of program spendingProvided oncology nursing support through a collaboration with a testing companys patient advocate helpline. Nurses responded to incoming calls addressed clinical and testingrelated questions and guided callers in understanding whether the companys test might be appropriate for their situation. In 2025 the program assisted approximately 250 individuals enhancing access to clear information and supportive guidance during the testing process.
$11,627 spent22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,983.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $31k to $70k (+127%).
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.
8% of Cancer Help Desk’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Rebecca Driscoll
Co-Founder CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 Help Desk’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
Cancer Help Desk leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 Help Desk.
“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.
Where its funders are
97% of Cancer Help Desk'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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Help Desk has grown faster than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Cancer Help Desk
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.
Public support
38%
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 Cancer Help Desk: 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 Help Desk?
- Cancer Help Desk (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,320 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($20,719). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cancer Help Desk have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $33,320 in grants to Cancer Help Desk.
- Who is the largest funder of Cancer Help Desk?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,719 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cancer Help Desk 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 4 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