Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,699,077 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,338,043). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 86
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $14M
What For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite Foundation does
Mission
Fps enables cancer patients and their loved ones the opportunity to strengthen, deepen and unify their relationships by creating unforgettable and lasting respite experiences. In fy25, fps responded to 496 inquiries from across the country and provided respite services to 135 patients and their families, resulting in 119 travel respite experiences with 388 travelers and 19 staycation respites experiences with 59 family members. Additionally, 59 people were served through direct ancillary services. Thus, fps served a total of 447 people through its direct respite travel and staycation programs this year. In addition, fps continued its support of prior respite recipients through its ancillary support program with over 36,077 touchpoints made to almost 3,000 families. Due to covid-19, two main changes to our respite program include our focused approach to community respites with our travel partner woodloch resort and the formalization of our staycation respite program. When the pandemic o
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Families in the fps respite program are supported in several ways. Based upon the health of the patient, they either receive a travel respite or a staycation respite. Both are tailored to the family and the relevant needs as determined by the nominator and the fps program coordinator via conversations with the patient and caregiver. Following the travel respite or staycation respite, fps continues to provide ancillary support to the patient, caregiver, and family through its respite reinforced program. To be eligible for the program, a patient must be nominated by a member of his/her oncology team. Fps nominators use clinical assessment factors to best identify patients in need of respite. New nominators participate in a short educational program about the mission of fps. Some nominators serve as members of the fps patient advisory committee, charged with overseeing the entire patient program, program guidelines, and clinical assessment factors. Our top nominating medical institutions in fy25 include jefferson health, allegheny health network, lehigh valley, university of pennsylvania abramson cancer center, md anderson cancer center, temple health and montefiore health along with…
$1,792,736 spentof which $53,628 as grants100% of program spendingPano certification: fps is a proud recipient of the pennsylvania association of nonprofit organizations (pano) standards for excellence certification. This award recognizes fps as an ethical and accountable organization dedicated to the highest level of excellence within the nonprofit sector and is bestowed only to the most well-managed and responsibly governed nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated compliance with the 56 specific standards for excellence based on honesty. Fps is one of only 140 nonprofits nationwide and the first nonprofit in montgomery county to hold this honor from over 11,000 registered pa charities. Fps is proud to hold this certification since 2005. In addition to our pano accreditation, fps received a four-star charity rating with charity navigator in march 2021 which means that fps has taken the steps to be accountable, transparent and financially healthy. Currently, fps holds 100% charity score which provides confidence to those who choose to give to fps. Also, fps maintains our platinum-level status with guidestar which demonstrates our commitment ot transparency and efficient, effective management and stewardship. Lastly, we encourage our…
Our third accomplishment is our commitment to fiscal responsibility, nonprofit sustainability and organizational management. In fy25, fps received 1,124,046 of in-kind support for the program in the form of complimentary office space, patient accomodations, professional and marketing services, respite supplies and special event goods and services. Noncash contributions are critical to the organization's success and allows fps to best use its constituent dollars.
Fps also provides emotional support to our fps families. In fy25, fps provided 36,077 diect ancillary support contacts and responded to 496 program inquiries. Furthermore, social media and the internet has allowed fps to reach over 12,750 people through indirect ancillary support. These touchpoints include phone calls, text messages, fps family events, facebook, patient self-care newsletter, and cancer care books and grief related resources as formalized in our respite reinforced program. Fps has been collecting outcome measures of its community respite model to gauge program effectiveness and the therapeutic benefits of respite. This data is critical in assessing the organizations continued advocacy of its mission and has become the basis for its strategic approach to changing the continuum of care for cancer patients and their families. Please review this data on the for pete's sake website under about us strategic initiatives https://takeabreakfromcancer.org/strategic-initiatives/ this data is continually updated. We believe that a cancer diagnosis affects the cancer patient, the caregiver and the family members in complex ways. Our hope for our patients and caregivers is that…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,792,736.
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.
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 $8.9M to $14M (+55%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Marcella B Schankweiler
CEO
Board chair
Meghan Patton
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $151k → $1.1M.
21 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
81% 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 FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 40% · 2019 87% · 2020 69% · 2021 14% · 2022 43% · 2023 23% — 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
47% of FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION'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
76% of FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 9 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION?
- FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,699,077 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,338,043). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $5,699,077 in grants to FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,338,043 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 86 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