Louisiana · Nonprofit
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,670,904 to it, the largest being UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,209,716). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $318M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $6.7M
- Net assets
- $49M
What Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center does
Mission
To improve survivorship and lessen the burden of cancer through expert treatment, compassionate care, early detection, research, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Patient care activities: during the 2025 fiscal year ending june 30, 2025 mpbcc provided approximately 58,000 radiation oncology treatments and 54,000 medical oncology treatments to 35,000 patients seeking cancer care. Patients receiving care were provided access to national and local clinical research trials investigating ways to better prevent, detect, diagnose and treat cancer. Additionally, approximately 11% of encounters were derived from patient participation in medicaid and approximately 58% was derived from patient participation in medicare.
$285,870,935 spent$309,468,350 earned by the program100% of program spendingCancer program activities: mbpcc has implemented three comprehensive cancer care program models and assumed certain responsibilities for developing and delivering the cancer care continuum to the local community. Services include cancer prevention, education, early detection, free cancer screening and transportation assistance. During the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025 the cancer programs screened 5,705 people at 134 free cancer screening events. 728 were navigated due to abnormal findings and 43 were diagnosed with cancer. Since 2002, over 118,000 people throughout la and ms have been screened for cancer at no cost to participants.
Medical physics residency program: mbpcc plays a significant role in the mary bird perkinis cancer center louisiana state university (mbpcc-lsu) medical physics and health physics program. This academic program provides didactic instruction and clinical and research training to the lsu ms and phd graduate students in medical physics. The lsu medical physics academic program is one of the largest in the country training medical physicists to serve cancer programs nationwide.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $285,870,935.
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 2021 to 2022, from $85M to $130M (+53%).
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: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Jonas Fontenot
President/CEO
Board chair
Cordell Haymon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $262k → $1.4M.
16 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.2M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER 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
44% 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 MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 53% · 2022 33% · 2023 30% — 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
52% of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $990k arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,241 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,241 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $775k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$775k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Foundation · exempt
- Cancer Services Inc · exempt
- St Elizabeth - Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center · partnership
- Gulf South Oncology Holdings LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER?
- MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER (Louisiana) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,670,904 to it, the largest being UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,209,716). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $6,670,904 in grants to MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER?
- UNITED HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,209,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 66 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