North Carolina · Nonprofit
CASTING FOR HOPE
CASTING FOR HOPE (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,576 to it, the largest being WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Casting for Hope does
Mission
Casting for Hope's primary purpose is to attend to the financial, emotional, and spiritual needs of women living with and surviving through an ovarian or gynecological cancer diagnosis and treatment, fill service gaps for these women and their families, and nurture women and their caregivers during the cancer journey by presenting a network of related resources. Casting for Hope directors listen to concerns, offer a degree of financial assistance, hold retreats for a time of respite, and distribute ovarian and gynecological cancer educational literature. Through assistance programs, female cancer survivors receive limited financial assistance, retreat opportunities, referrals to other organizations, and resource lists. Funds to sustain these programs are raised through fly-fishing tournaments and sponsorships, 5k walks and runs, concerts and dinners, various community events, private donations and community grants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Retreats: weekend respites for gynecological cancer patients and their caregivers. Fellowship amid presentations. Talks on cancer and health-related topics. Casting and fly-fishing participation. Fly-tying demonstrations. Retreats offered at no cost to participants. Casting for Hope organizes weekend retreats for up to fourteen gynecological cancer patients/survivors and their caregivers at the retreat center. Guests bond over the two-day period through shared experiences and personal stories. Professionals in the fields of oncology, survivorship, health and well-being, and other related topics present practical information. Fly-tying and casting are demonstrated by expert anglers and fly-fishing participation is encouraged. The primary goal is to give participants a break from clinical settings. For a shorter get-away period, day retreats and one-night stay retreats may be scheduled for an individual and her caregiver(s). Day retreats are also open to cancer support groups. Casting for Hope's team goal is to increase the number of day and one-night stay retreats. Casting for Hope directors think the treatment and other illness isolation required for those who are undergoing or…
$16,720 spent$1,275 earned by the program12% of program spendingClient benefits: money paid directly to doctors' offices, hospitals, treatment centers, pharmacies, and other medical facilities for patient care. Payments distributed for utilities and other services, gasoline gift cards, dietary essentials, insurance premiums and other needs. A patient may ask for assistance with situationally-specific needs and may be awarded aid at the executive director's discretion. To date, over 336 patients have received financial assistance and encouragement.
$36,741 spent27% of program spendingOther programs
$84,893 spent61% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $138,354.
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 2019 to 2020, from $146k to $206k (+41%).
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 8% · 2021 20% · 2022 24% · 2023 18% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CASTING FOR HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Kathryn P Haney
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CASTING FOR HOPE’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
CASTING FOR HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 CASTING FOR HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 96% · 2022 46% · 2023 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of CASTING FOR HOPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 21% 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
95% of CASTING FOR HOPE's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
CASTING FOR HOPE is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CASTING FOR HOPE
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASTING FOR HOPE: 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 CASTING FOR HOPE?
- CASTING FOR HOPE (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $129,576 to it, the largest being WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CASTING FOR HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $129,576 in grants to CASTING FOR HOPE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASTING FOR HOPE?
- WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASTING FOR HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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