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CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC

CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $660,719 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($139,761). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$501k
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$661k
Net assets
$647k
16/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc does

Mission

This entity is dedicated to providing hope and support for brain tumor patients and caregivers, while advancing public awareness of brain tumors, quality of care, and brain tumor research.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support provided to hospitals to fund brain tumor research and treatment options and to provide support for patients and their caregivers.

    $316,128 spentof which $205,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $316,128.

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 ($202k) Expenses 100 ($125k) Net assets 100 ($400k)2018 Revenue 86 ($174k) Expenses 202 ($252k) Net assets 82 ($329k)2019 Revenue 114 ($230k) Expenses 206 ($257k) Net assets 76 ($302k)2020 Revenue 122 ($246k) Expenses 206 ($257k) Net assets 73 ($291k)2021 Revenue 128 ($259k) Expenses 207 ($258k) Net assets 73 ($292k)2022 Revenue 231 ($467k) Expenses 204 ($255k) Net assets 127 ($507k)2023 Revenue 154 ($311k) Expenses 280 ($349k) Net assets 117 ($469k)2024 Revenue 267 ($539k) Expenses 330 ($411k) Net assets 150 ($602k)2025 Revenue 248 ($501k) Expenses 375 ($468k) Net assets 162 ($647k)
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Revenue (248)Expenses (375)Net assets (162)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 2021 to 2022, from $292k to $507k (+73%).

$400k
$329k
$302k
$291k
$292k
$507k
$469k
$606k
$651k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

62% of CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
’17
−$78k
’18
−$27k
’19
−$11k
’20
$885
’21
$212k
’22
−$38k
’23
$128k
’24
$33k
’25
13
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

Christopher Cusano

CEO

Board chair

Dan Tapper

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed101212131314161615
Joined·+5+0+3+1+2+2+2+3
No longer listed·30211024
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $14k → $79k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE 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

CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

88% 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 CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC.

21%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 71% · 2019 51% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 30% · 2023 32% — 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

33% of CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

84% of CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
DE
NC
FL

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

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’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve12.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC

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In Connecticut

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 16%Fundraising 16%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CT

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC?
CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $660,719 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($139,761). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $660,719 in grants to CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $139,761 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing