Illinois · Nonprofit
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER
CANCER WELLNESS CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,750,572 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($694,371). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 140
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Cancer Wellness Center does
Mission
The Cancer Wellness Center exists to help anyone touched by cancer find a way forward. Through guidance, comfort, and community, we equip people with cancer and their loved ones to cope with the diagnosis that has changed their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Counseling services are available from the center's staff of clinical professionals, including counselors, social workers and psychologists. These services provide a venue in which people gain support, learn and expand coping strategies and process the impact of a cancer diagnosis on their lives. During 2025, 798 individuals were served with 4,192 service units.
$690,984 spent42% of program spendingWellness and educational programming encompasses a variety of classes and presentations to help address the stress related to a cancer diagnosis. Weekly classes, such as yoga, exercise and mindfulness, are available to help participants cope. Educational lectures and workshops are offered on a variety of topics to provide a reliable source of cancer-related information. During 2025, 1,377 individuals were served with 10,031 service units (classes/sessions/hours).
$600,470 spent36% of program spendingSupport groups are professionally facilitated and provide an arena to receive peer support related to the cancer experience. Through these in-person and virtual groups, individuals are able to bolster and expand social support, allowing them to cope, share information and find community with others affected by a cancer diagnosis. During 2025, 306 individuals were served with 3,035 service units.
$358,745 spent22% of program spendingThrough partnership programming, the center expands the reach and impact of our programming. These services include counseling and wellness classes, such as yoga and mindfulness, that are provided in collaboration with local hospital cancer programs. During 2025, 174 individuals were served with 1,096 service hours.
$4,955 spent$20,030 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,655,154.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.5M to $4.3M (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 15% · 2021 22% · 2022 1% · 2023 3% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of CANCER WELLNESS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Carrie Callas
Executive director
Board chair
Steve Schwartz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 29 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $279k → $586k.
18 of 140 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 WELLNESS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 140 funders by total. 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 WELLNESS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
62% 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 WELLNESS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 27% · 2019 37% · 2020 24% · 2021 17% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% — 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
48% of CANCER WELLNESS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
90% of CANCER WELLNESS CENTER's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 WELLNESS CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CANCER WELLNESS CENTER
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CANCER WELLNESS CENTER: 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 WELLNESS CENTER?
- CANCER WELLNESS CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 140 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,750,572 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($694,371). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANCER WELLNESS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 140 organizations giving $4,750,572 in grants to CANCER WELLNESS CENTER, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANCER WELLNESS CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $694,371 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANCER WELLNESS CENTER 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.
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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 140 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