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CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM

CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM (Vermont) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,036 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($92,088). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$339k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$479k
Net assets
$411k
18/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Cancer Patient Support Program does

Mission

We serve Vermont cancer patients and their families in a time of extraordinary need by providing financial assistance and support during diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Cancer Patient Support Foundation Emergency Fund helps ease the financial burden of cancer by providing financial assistance to patients while they are undergoing treatment. The fund helps pay for their basic living needs such as but not limited to transportation to treatment, housing, utilities, home heating, food, prescriptions, specialty clothing and out-of-pocket medical expenses. On average, the fund supports approx 500 patients each year and has awarded more than $3 million dollars to patients since it began in 2001. For 2025, total patients 538.

    $255,447 spentof which $195,288 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. The Cancer Patient Support Foundation Maggie Card program provides discounts to local cancer patients on goods and services from participating businesses.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,447.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($289k) Expenses 100 ($387k) Net assets 100 ($458k)2018 Revenue 107 ($308k) Expenses 82 ($317k) Net assets 90 ($413k)2019 Revenue 105 ($303k) Expenses 87 ($338k) Net assets 96 ($442k)2020 Revenue 91 ($263k) Expenses 84 ($325k) Net assets 82 ($375k)2021 Revenue 125 ($361k) Expenses 82 ($316k) Net assets 93 ($425k)2022 Revenue 122 ($352k) Expenses 86 ($334k) Net assets 80 ($365k)2023 Revenue 95 ($276k) Expenses 80 ($311k) Net assets 83 ($378k)2024 Revenue 117 ($339k) Expenses 84 ($324k) Net assets 90 ($411k)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (84)Net assets (90)Peer revenue range

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 $438k to $375k (−14%).

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$486k
$473k
$439k
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$375k
$378k
$411k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$98k
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−$9k
’18
−$35k
’19
−$62k
’20
$46k
’21
$17k
’22
−$35k
’23
$15k
’24
4.0
months of
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

Sarah Wallace-Brodeur

Exec director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2219162021171515
Joined·+8+1+11+2+3+2+6
No longer listed·11471746
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $31k → $33k.

5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM’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 PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

67% 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 PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM.

19%
largest funder
47%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 49% · 2019 43% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 34% — 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.

How long its funders stay

47% of CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

58% of CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM's grant income comes from Vermont funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Vermont out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250 on record.

State$250
Top programs
  • Abandoned Property Claims$250

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

66% of spending goes to programs.

Program 66%Management 19%Fundraising 15%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM?
CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM (Vermont) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,036 to it, the largest being THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($92,088). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $479,036 in grants to CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM?
THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $92,088 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANCER PATIENT SUPPORT PROGRAM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 26 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