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CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC

CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,336,276 to it, the largest being YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ($350,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
48
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$12M
27/48 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide assistance to cancer patients and their families including assistance with rent, mortgage, utilities, food, medical, travel, and other related expenses.

    $986,831 spentof which $722,040 as grants$5,816 earned by the program
    86% of program spending
  2. Contributions to support cancer research at memorial sloan kettering cancer center and lenox hill hospital.

    $155,000 spentof which $155,000 as grants
    14% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,141,831.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($8.2M)2019 Revenue 99 ($1.6M) Expenses 114 ($1.2M) Net assets 105 ($8.6M)2020 Revenue 94 ($1.5M) Expenses 112 ($1.2M) Net assets 106 ($8.7M)2021 Revenue 87 ($1.4M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 122 ($10M)2022 Revenue 115 ($1.9M) Expenses 114 ($1.2M) Net assets 115 ($9.4M)2023 Revenue 86 ($1.4M) Expenses 128 ($1.3M) Net assets 122 ($10.0M)2024 Revenue 123 ($2.0M) Expenses 132 ($1.4M) Net assets 135 ($11M)2025 Revenue 130 ($2.1M) Expenses 139 ($1.4M) Net assets 146 ($12M)
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Revenue (130)Expenses (139)Net assets (146)

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 $10M to $11M (+10%).

$10M
$10M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$11M
$12M
$13M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$592k
’18
$426k
’19
$378k
’20
$339k
’21
$700k
’22
$68k
’23
$631k
’24
$670k
’25
6.6
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

Jane G Ellis

Executive director/preside

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed77989101011
Joined·+0+2+0+1+1+0+1
No longer listed·0010000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $200k → $328k.

8 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 CANCER FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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

CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

70% 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 CANCER FOUNDATION INC.

15%
largest funder
41%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2021 30% · 2022 24% · 2023 30% — 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

40% of CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

66% of CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

MN
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
NC
TX
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $357k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Organizations like CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC

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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

61%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Cf 15 North Main Street LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC?
CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,336,276 to it, the largest being YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ($350,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,336,276 in grants to CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC?
YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 48 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