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COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $68,067,581 to it, the largest being RED GATES FOUNDATION ($68,067,581). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$25M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$68M
Net assets
$51M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 46%
01What it does

What Commonwealth Foundation for Cancer Research does

Mission

To provide funding for cancer research

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The corporation is an exempt organization under sec. 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. The organization provides support for improving care and advancing discoveries and new technologies relating to cancer through clinical studies and trials.

    $55,023,640 spentof which $55,023,640 as grants
    100% of program spending

  2. The corporation is organized as a supporting organization for the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the community foundation, inc., an exempt organization under sec. 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended.

    $57,450 spentof which $57,450 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,081,090.

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 ($37M) Expenses 100 ($25M) Net assets 100 ($39M)2018 Revenue 77 ($28M) Expenses 99 ($24M) Net assets 111 ($43M)2019 Revenue 38 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($25M) Net assets 83 ($32M)2020 Revenue 64 ($24M) Expenses 82 ($20M) Net assets 92 ($36M)2021 Revenue 45 ($17M) Expenses 83 ($20M) Net assets 83 ($32M)2022 Revenue 136 ($50M) Expenses 194 ($48M) Net assets 90 ($35M)2023 Revenue 277 ($102M) Expenses 225 ($55M) Net assets 212 ($82M)2024 Revenue 68 ($25M) Expenses 228 ($56M) Net assets 132 ($51M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (68)Expenses (228)Net assets (132)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 2022 to 2023, from $35M to $82M (+135%).

$39M
$43M
$32M
$36M
$32M
$35M
$82M
$51M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12M
’17
$4.1M
’18
−$11M
’19
$3.4M
’20
−$3.6M
’21
$2.8M
’22
$47M
’23
−$31M
’24
0.2
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed56666555
Joined·+1+0+2+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0020100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH’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.

Where its funders are

100% of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−124% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Organizations like COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH

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 Virginia

Annabella R Jenkins Foundation78%Goodwin House Foundation76%Carilion Clinic Foundation76%Centra Health Foundation75%The View at Goodwin Living LLC75%Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology75%Lifenet Foundation75%Life Ring Foundation75%

Nationally

Community Cancer Center Foundation79%William Raveis Charitable Fund Inc78%Annabella R Jenkins Foundation78%Baptist Cancer Center Physicians Foundation Inc78%Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc78%Baptist Health Foundation Inc77%The Cooper Foundation Inc77%Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc77%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • The Community Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Ann K Kirby Foundation · exempt
  • Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · exempt
  • The Pauley Family Foundation · exempt
  • Reb Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH: 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 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH?
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $68,067,581 to it, the largest being RED GATES FOUNDATION ($68,067,581). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $68,067,581 in grants to COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH?
RED GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68,067,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 1 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