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DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC

DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,466 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($114,306). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$42k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$123k
Net assets
$81k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Delaware Ovarian Cancer Foundation Inc does

Mission

Delaware Ovarian Cancer Foundation (DOCF) events and activities support the DOCF threefold mission to increase awareness and education about ovarian cancer, to support women affected and to support ovarian cancer research.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Ovarian cancer awareness has been accomplished through various events and activities. Turn The Towns Teal is a national ovarian cancer awareness program brought to Delaware by the DOCF in 2015. DOCF volunteer teams, including Girl Scout Troops, make large Teal bows which are displayed on lamp posts, fences and other locations in several towns throughout the three counties in Delaware. In 2024, twelve towns and cities in Delaware were decorated with these Teal bows. This activity spreads awareness to thousands of people during the month of September, which is National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. The cost of this program is low, limited to the bow materials. Another event that promotes awareness is the DOCF Teal Ribbon 5K Run-Walk to Fight Ovarian Cancer which in 2024 was held during September. During this DOCF 5K event, women and their families and friends, along with businesses and their customers, were made aware of this deadly women's disease by speakers at the event, and through the DOCF website, the DOCF FaceBook page, and the DOCF 5K run/walk website.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($48k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($73k)2022 Revenue 55 ($27k) Expenses 2 ($1k) Net assets 135 ($98k)2023 Revenue 101 ($49k) Expenses 104 ($54k) Net assets 128 ($93k)2024 Revenue 88 ($42k) Expenses 105 ($54k) Net assets 112 ($81k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (88)Expenses (105)Net assets (112)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 $73k to $98k (+35%).

$73k
$98k
$93k
$81k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’21
$25k
’22
−$5k
’23
−$12k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Dorianne L Short

President and CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $450.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION 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

DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC.

93%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

97% of DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 2 states.

NY
DE

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

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’21
’22
’23
Delaware out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Government funding DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12k on record.

State$12k
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Top programs
  • PASSTHRU PIT CK OFF-REVENUE$12k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

DE

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Questions and answers

Who funds DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC?
DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC (Delaware) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,466 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($114,306). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $123,466 in grants to DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC?
DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $114,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DELAWARE OVARIAN CANCER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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