Skip to content

Vermont · Nonprofit

CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC

CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,358,836 to it, the largest being Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation ($2,036,336). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$553k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$495k
0/6 repeat funders
01What it does

What Cancer Vaccine Coalition Inc does

Mission

The mission of the corporation is to promote health and scientific research by funding the development of scientific research at institutions engaged in developing vaccines to treat breast and other types of cancer for the ultimate purpose of curing disease.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supported cancer vaccine research by funding clinical trials and awareness campaigns.

    $1,961,872 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,961,872.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($114k) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 26 ($553k) Expenses 1827 ($2.1M) Net assets 25 ($495k)
20242025
Revenue (26)Expenses (1827)Net assets (25)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 2024 to 2025, from $2.1M to $581k (−72%).

$2.1M
$581k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.0M
’24
−$1.5M
’25
3.3
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

Kristen Dahlgren Waggoner

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed86
Joined·+0
No longer listed·2
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 VACCINE COALITION 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 VACCINE COALITION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 VACCINE COALITION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 5 states in all.

MI
PA
CA
VA
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 VACCINE COALITION INC's revenue fell 74% between 2024 and 2025.

Operating margin−275% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−74% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC

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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 34 states

ME
NH
WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
GA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANCER VACCINE COALITION 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC?
CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,358,836 to it, the largest being Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation ($2,036,336). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,358,836 in grants to CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC.
Who is the largest funder of CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC?
Brian and Sheila Jellison Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,036,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANCER VACCINE COALITION INC 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.

Play a game about who funds Cancer Vaccine Coalition →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 6 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