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Cancer Support Services Inc

Cancer Support Services Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,427,191 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ($454,750). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$686k
Funders on record
25
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$1.7M
13/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Cancer Support Services Inc does

Mission

Cancer support services, inc (the organization") provides free services to men, women, and children facing any type of cancer. The organization increases nationwide cancer fighters' access to healthcare by providing free overnight housing to those who need to be near aiken/augusta cancer treatment and cannot afford hotels. The organization further increases access to healthcare by providing georgia and south carolina cancer fighters critically needed transportaion to cancer treatment. The organization also grants funds for rent, utility, medical supplies and prescription assistance to area georgia and south carolina cancer fighters and hospice patients who are unable to afford these basic expenses. The organization's services support includes ongoing correspondence and encouragement every month for at least one year to cancer patients facing depression, isolation, fears, and anxieties. During the pandemic, the agency never closed, remaining open every day. Serving cancer fighters since

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Housing Services - Cancer Support Services provides housing services free of charge to men, women, and children who reside locally, statewide in Georgia, South Carolina and beyond and who need overnight stay in order to be near cancer treatment in the CSRA. Housing services include transportation to medical appointments, meals and Cancer Support Service's hospitality. Cancer Support Services provided 3,264 free lodging nights so men, women, and children could have access to cancer treatment in 2025.

    $344,009 spent
    64% of program spending
  2. Emergency Relief Services - Cancer Support Services provides funding to stop utility disconnects, stop evictions, and pay for prescription costs and medical supplies for CSRA counties' men, women and children currently receiving cancer treatment and to hospice patients. Payments are made directly to vendors and provides hope to patients and families overwhelmed by the cancer diagnosis. This fund includes transportation coordination and costs for men and women who do not have a way to get to cancer treatment. Cancer Support Services provided men, women, and children 5,108 transport trips to cancer treatment in 2025.

    $156,846 spent
    29% of program spending
  3. Outreach Services - Depression, anxieties and isolation can be as challenging as the cancer diagnosis. Cancer Support Services provides emotional support to cancer fighters nationwide who are isolated, lonely, depressed and anxious during cancer treatments. Cancer fighters receive ongoing correspondence, phone calls, local hospital visits, and encouragement every month for at least one year. Cancer Support Services provided 20,708 notes, emails, and phone calls in 2025.

    $33,653 spent
    6% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $534,508.

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 ($427k) Expenses 100 ($398k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 108 ($461k) Expenses 97 ($385k) Net assets 107 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 142 ($604k) Expenses 113 ($448k) Net assets 121 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 135 ($574k) Expenses 104 ($413k) Net assets 135 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 125 ($534k) Expenses 110 ($437k) Net assets 143 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 119 ($509k) Expenses 114 ($455k) Net assets 148 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 125 ($534k) Expenses 124 ($492k) Net assets 152 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 124 ($529k) Expenses 136 ($540k) Net assets 151 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 161 ($686k) Expenses 164 ($651k) Net assets 154 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (161)Expenses (164)Net assets (154)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.4M to $1.5M (+11%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.8M
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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.

2017
2018
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2020
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of Cancer Support Services Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
$76k
’18
$156k
’19
$161k
’20
$97k
’21
$54k
’22
$41k
’23
−$11k
’24
$34k
’25
15
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.

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Joined·+0+4+6+1+3+1+0+0
No longer listed·05500310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $74k → $152k.

6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Support Services Inc’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 Support Services Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 Support Services Inc.

32%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 39% · 2019 37% · 2020 37% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 30% — 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

42% of Cancer Support Services Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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

98% of Cancer Support Services Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.

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

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Georgia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $605k 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 Support Services Inc is better cushioned than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · below the median
Months of reserve15.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cancer Support Services 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 Cancer Support Services Inc?
Cancer Support Services Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,427,191 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC ($454,750). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cancer Support Services Inc have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,427,191 in grants to Cancer Support Services Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cancer Support Services Inc?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTRAL SAVANNAH RIVER AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $454,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cancer Support Services Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing