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Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Lung Cancer Alliance (Washington, D.C.) is funded by 29 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $6,344,118 in grants to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($6,000,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
$1k from 1 funders in 2024, up from $109k and 14 in 2017.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Lung Cancer Alliance’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Lung Cancer Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 39% · 2021 73% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
7% of Lung Cancer Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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.
Lung Cancer Alliance draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C. — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 29 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
80% of spending goes to programs.
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 32 states
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2019 (financials across 2017–2019), and the filings of 29funders 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. view filing