California · Nonprofit
JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES
JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,236,583 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Jacobs Heart Childrens Cancer Support Services does
Mission
Since 1998, Jacob's Heart has provided emotional, practical, financial and peer support to hundreds of children with cancer and thousands of their family members.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Practical and financial support to families of seriously ill children including: $208,641 in direct financial assistance for rent, utilities, fuel and funeral expenses; 8,954 bags of groceries; 202 care packages with personalized gifts and essentials; 1,556 door-to-door rides to treatment; 583 home and hospital visits; 5,162 cards, gifts and remembrances to honor treatment milestones; personalized gifts and celebrations valued at $97,126 which alleviated stress and delivered joy to 300 family members through holiday hearts adopt-a-family.
$1,810,757 spent$228,421 earned by the program48% of program spendingSocial/emotional support to children who have cancer, their parents and siblings including: one on one counseling for all family members, sand tray therapy, bilingual in-treatment support groups, bilingual bereaved support groups, teen support groups, camp heart & hands led by packard hospital picu nurses, forever loved bereaved family retreat.
$1,260,208 spent$358,999 earned by the program34% of program spendingCommunity education: in 1999, jacobs heart led the efforts to declare september childhood cancer awareness month by executive order in the state of california, which has since grown to national significance. In continuation of these efforts, our community education and awareness programs strive to inspire compassionate action within local communities through events in celebration of childhood cancer awareness month; proclamations with state and local governments; and community memorial ceremonies to ensure that no child is ever forgotten.
$412,084 spent11% of program spendingForever loved grief support: jacobs heart has reallocated funding, resources, and staff time to formalize its culturally relevant, multimodal comprehensive grief support program. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, jacobs heart honors the unique journey of each grieving family member and designs supportive options and processes to fit the individual, with no time limit after the death of a child. Jacobs heart is actively fundraising to evaluate and address the needs of grieving children and families and our board and staff will continue to create a strong safety net of support to address them effectively, efficiently, and with compassion.
$276,384 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,759,433.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.2M to $4.7M (+46%).
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: 2020 8% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $318k → $767k.
16 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
94% 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 JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 36% · 2019 28% · 2020 17% · 2021 19% · 2022 28% · 2023 14% — 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
48% of JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
50% of JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES'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 $3.1M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES
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.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES?
- JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES (California) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,236,583 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($2,000,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $6,236,583 in grants to JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 58 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