California · Nonprofit
ELIXIR FUND
ELIXIR FUND (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,497 to it, the largest being THE DAVID R AND PATRICIA D ATKINSON FOUNDATION ($132,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $106k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $202k
What Elixir Fund does
Mission
The Elixir Fund is an organization that is dedicated to improving the comfort and care of cancer survivors (from the time of diagnosis on) and their caregivers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Elixir Fund accomplished its mission by assisting the patients and caregivers nationwide to access support services in their local areas.
$10,592 spent25% of program spendingThe Elixir Fund accomplished its mission by purchasing gift cards and providing grants to the patients who are part of the Elixir Fund Registry.
$1,775 spentof which $2,450 as grants4% of program spendingThe Elixir Fund accomplished its mission by offering virtual programming that included support groups and weekly guided meditation.
$30,275 spent71% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,642.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $171k to $202k (+18%).
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.
96% of ELIXIR FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Megan McQuarrie
Executive Director
Board chair
Thomas Mazanec
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100 → $35k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 ELIXIR FUND’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
ELIXIR FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 99% · 2023 85% — 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
60% of ELIXIR FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
ELIXIR FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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
ELIXIR FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ELIXIR FUND
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELIXIR FUND: 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 ELIXIR FUND?
- ELIXIR FUND (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,497 to it, the largest being THE DAVID R AND PATRICIA D ATKINSON FOUNDATION ($132,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELIXIR FUND have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $174,497 in grants to ELIXIR FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELIXIR FUND?
- THE DAVID R AND PATRICIA D ATKINSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $132,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELIXIR FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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