Illinois · Nonprofit
Cancer Research and Awareness
Cancer Research and Awareness (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $420 to it, the largest being EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Cancer Research and Awareness runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,029 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,029 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Illinois Action for Childrenlocal
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio match
- Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10.
From the IRS filings of Cancer Research and Awareness’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 Research and Awareness leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 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.
Where its funders are
Cancer Research and Awareness draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Illinois Action for ChildrenlocalIL · funds 237 organizations near you
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miami Cancer Institute at Baptist Health Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phase One Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tap Cancer Out Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Run for Womenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cancer League of Colorado Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pledge the Pink Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)localIL · funds 174 organizations near you
- Matthew Hill Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Groh George W Tr FBO Med Researchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 24 Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Cancer Research and Awareness
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Research and Awareness: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Cancer Research and Awareness?
- Cancer Research and Awareness (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $420 to it, the largest being EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cancer Research and Awareness have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $420 in grants to Cancer Research and Awareness, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cancer Research and Awareness?
- EQUITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cancer Research and Awareness find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing