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CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU

CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,098 to it, the largest being FRED & CHRISTINE ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION ($77,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$314k
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$252k
Net assets
$434k
5/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Fou does

Mission

Candlelighters supports, serves and advocates for children and adolescents with cancer, sickle cell and other blood disorders, along with their families, long term survivors, bereaved families and the professionals that care for them.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Youth and Sibling Service program: At Candlelighters we understand that the diagnosis of a child effects everyone in the family. Siblings often find themselves left out when great focus is on their ill sibling. Routines such as carpooling to sports or other extra curricular activities are often suddenly cut due to the familys new normal of the need for one or both parents to be present at constant clinic visits and or hospitalizations. Our programs aim to provide normalizing activities for all children in the family and to provide opportunities for peer support with other siblings experiencing similar circumstances

    $117,991 spent
    87% of program spending
  2. Family Assistance & Sickle Cell

    $14,975 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. AYA - Adolescent & Young Adult Services for those diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 18-25

    $2,640 spent
    2% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $135,606.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($81k) Net assets 100 ($98k)2020 Revenue 91 ($90k) Expenses 63 ($51k) Net assets 139 ($136k)2021 Revenue 80 ($79k) Expenses 90 ($73k) Net assets 145 ($142k)2022 Revenue 119 ($117k) Expenses 89 ($73k) Net assets 190 ($187k)2023 Revenue 163 ($161k) Expenses 125 ($102k) Net assets 250 ($245k)2024 Revenue 240 ($238k) Expenses 209 ($170k) Net assets 319 ($313k)2025 Revenue 318 ($314k) Expenses 237 ($193k) Net assets 443 ($434k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (318)Expenses (237)Net assets (443)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 $313k to $434k (+39%).

$98k
$136k
$142k
$187k
$245k
$313k
$434k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU’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. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’19
$38k
’20
$6k
’21
$45k
’22
$59k
’23
$68k
’24
$121k
’25
27
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

Beverley Tidwell

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed89
Joined·+1
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $38k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU’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

CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

55% 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 CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU.

31%
largest funder
61%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 54% · 2019 26% · 2020 66% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 27% — 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

43% of CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 28% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

57% of CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

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

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’20
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’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $65k 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

CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve26.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)21% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 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

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 19%Fundraising 2%

Governance

7
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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU?
CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU (Arizona) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,098 to it, the largest being FRED & CHRISTINE ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION ($77,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $252,098 in grants to CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU?
FRED & CHRISTINE ARMSTRONG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $77,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER FOU find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 18 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