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LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND

LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,735 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($158,000). 7 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
$482k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$403k
Net assets
$213k
7/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Lou Malnati - Cancer Research Fund does

Mission

Funding cancer research organizations

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide contributions to cancer research related organizations

    $417,987 spentof which $417,987 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $417,987.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($354k) Expenses 100 ($12k) Net assets 100 ($413k)2018 Revenue 97 ($345k) Expenses 5618 ($668k) Net assets 22 ($89k)2019 Revenue 100 ($356k) Expenses 3105 ($369k) Net assets 18 ($76k)2020 Revenue 112 ($397k) Expenses 280 ($33k) Net assets 106 ($439k)2021 Revenue 50 ($177k) Expenses 3190 ($379k) Net assets 57 ($237k)2022 Revenue 12 ($41k) Expenses 118 ($14k) Net assets 64 ($264k)2023 Revenue 122 ($433k) Expenses 4423 ($526k) Net assets 41 ($171k)2024 Revenue 114 ($403k) Expenses 3515 ($418k) Net assets 38 ($156k)2025 Revenue 136 ($482k) Expenses 3570 ($425k) Net assets 52 ($213k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (3570)Net assets (52)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 2019 to 2020, from $76k to $439k (+479%).

$413k
$89k
$76k
$439k
$237k
$264k
$171k
$156k
$213k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

111% of LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,932 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$343k
’17
−$324k
’18
−$13k
’19
$364k
’20
−$203k
’21
$27k
’22
−$93k
’23
−$16k
’24
$57k
’25
4.9
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.

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Listed444445555
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·00000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $300 → $72k.

5 of 13 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 LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH 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

LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND.

39%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 44% · 2020 34% · 2021 51% · 2022 59% · 2023 45% — 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

40% of LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND'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 $124k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MI

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH 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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND?
LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,735 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($158,000). 7 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 LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $402,735 in grants to LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $158,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOU MALNATI - CANCER RESEARCH FUND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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