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GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION

GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,929 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($117,701). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$579k
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$668k
Net assets
$405k
13/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Gastric Cancer Foundation does

Mission

The Gastric Cancer Foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. The foundation funds research initiatives that contribute to understanding gastric cancer and developing improved methods of prevention, detection and treatment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Research: the Gastric Cancer Foundation is the primary source of funding for the gastric cancer registry (gcr) based at stanford medical center. It is the most comprehensive and largest hipaa-compliant registry for this disease. The gcr makes clinical and genomic information available to all researchers free of charge through its open-access genome explorer internet portal. The gcr has over 723 enrolled patients and has uploaded data to the genome explorer from its sequencing of 257 tumor samples. Beyond the gcr, the foundation made two strategic one-year grants to provide seed-funding for promising studies with the potential to bring new treatments to patients.

    $300,000 spentof which $300,000 as grants
    70% of program spending
  2. Education & awareness initiatives: the Gastric Cancer Foundation website (gastriccancer.org) serves as a comprehensive and centralized resource of current, reliable information for gastric cancer patients and their families. Website engagement continued to strengthen in 2025, reaching 44,000 page views from over 18,000 users across 22,000 sessions, reflecting broader reach and more frequent visits. The foundation produces an original video series called the gesundheit kitchen that helps patients cope with the unusual nutritional challenges caused by the disease. In fy 2024-2025, 6 new episodes were produced. We also developed and launched a new video education series called your new normal designed to help highlight key challenges stomach cancer patient face during and after treatment. The foundation offers a free clinical trials navigator service to help patients find open studies that match their diagnosis. In addition the foundation has partnered with another organization to build a safe and secure online community where patients and families provide information and support to each other.

    $128,879 spent
    30% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $428,879.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($397k) Net assets 100 ($681k)2021 Revenue 56 ($595k) Expenses 173 ($685k) Net assets 90 ($615k)2022 Revenue 59 ($625k) Expenses 138 ($547k) Net assets 102 ($693k)2023 Revenue 45 ($484k) Expenses 182 ($721k) Net assets 67 ($456k)2024 Revenue 55 ($583k) Expenses 157 ($622k) Net assets 61 ($417k)2025 Revenue 54 ($579k) Expenses 149 ($591k) Net assets 60 ($405k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (54)Expenses (149)Net assets (60)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 $631k to $1.0M (+59%).

$726k
$631k
$1.0M
$862k
$739k
$732k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$671k
’20
−$90k
’21
$78k
’22
−$237k
’23
−$39k
’24
−$12k
’25
15
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

Stacie Hershman

Executive director

Board chair

Paul Gottsegen

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed121212121010
Joined·+0+0+2+0+0
No longer listed·00220
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $25k → $144k.

11 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION’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

GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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

72% 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 GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION.

18%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 69% · 2021 37% · 2022 30% · 2023 52% — 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

43% of GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

69% of GASTRIC CANCER 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 $209k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from California funders.

MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
FL

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $459k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve14.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like GASTRIC CANCER 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 22%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 7 states

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION?
GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $667,929 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($117,701). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $667,929 in grants to GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $117,701 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GASTRIC CANCER FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 26 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