Virginia · Nonprofit
Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc
Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,225 to it, the largest being Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc does
Mission
To prevent and defeat colorectal cancer Activities: Colon health and prevention education; early detection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early Detection Service and Prevention Education: HCB2 continues to expand their medical center partnerships to include 17 free clinic and community health center sites in 2025. HCB2 funds colorectal cancer screening to medically underserved and uninsured individuals across Virginia. HCB2 purchases FIT screening kits for patients and testing strips for medical staff to facilitate the screening of patients. In addition, gift cards are distributed to patients who return their completed FIT kits in a timely manner. Educational resources for clinics and their patients are also provided as well as staff training and technical support. Over 12,200 patients have been screened on time for colorectal cancer since the programs inception in 2017.
$94,294 spent$65,970 earned by the program65% of program spendingColon Health Education and Support Services: HCB2 continues to provide education and resources to all ages through both in-person and virtual events in partnership with community groups, employers, and high school students. The 18 members of the Junior Board of high school students have reached over 25,000 peers, parents, and teachers through their on campus initiatives. Tens of thousands have been educated either directly or virtually through our Can We Talk? presentations and appearances with our popular and entertaining large inflatable colon and Potty Plinko game. Colorectal cancer is now the #1 cause of cancer-related death in people under age 50, and HCB2 believes providing various educational resources to engage even the younger community in a deeper level of conversation about colon health will move people from awareness to action and save lives.
$13,210 spent$26,269 earned by the program9% of program spendingReaching High Risk Communities: HCB2 Community Screening initiatives allow us to reach members in high risk communities across the Commonwealth of Virginia. By partnering with the local organizations in these areas, HCB2 offers education and screening services during community health events. Virginia has two locations which have been identified as national hot spots for colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. HCB2s START program, Screening The AT Risk Together, and their colonoscopy stipend program, was created to bridge resources within these areas and offer services to directly address the need to increase education and increase screening rates among high risk community groups.
$36,961 spentof which $27,468 as grants$63,793 earned by the program26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $144,465.
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 $68k to $323k (+378%).
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.
14% of Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Melinda M Conklin-Cassem MS MEd
Executive Director
Board chair
Roger Cassem MEd
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $35k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Hitting Cancer Below the Belt 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
Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 90% · 2021 95% · 2022 51% · 2023 71% — 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
50% of Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
69% of Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc holds deeper cash reserves 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 Hitting Cancer Below the Belt 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 Virginia
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
22%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc: 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 Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc?
- Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $126,225 to it, the largest being Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $126,225 in grants to Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc?
- Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 12 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