Louisiana · Nonprofit
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,669 to it, the largest being KARNIVAL KREWE DE LOUISIANE INC ($515,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $39M
What Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Foundation does
Mission
To build a long-term sustainable endowment fund and provide for the stewardship of such funds in order to help fight cancer in the communities served by the center. The foundation may also provide support to other non-profit organizations located in the geographic areas served by the center, which have demonstrated the ability to conduct cancer-related programs or services that reduce cancer incidence and mortality, or improve the quality of life for thoseaffected by cancer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Foundation board-approved grant funding to benefit the mission and patient care activities of the center in the areas it serves.
$1,035,632 spentof which $1,035,632 as grants$308,362 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,035,632.
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 2022 to 2023, from $22M to $29M (+35%).
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.
65% of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION’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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Jonas Fontenot
President/CEO
Board chair
Rolfe Miller
Member - 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 narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $145k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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: $2.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Cancer Services Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION’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
MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 93% · 2019 66% · 2020 45% · 2021 52% · 2022 51% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
63% of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $386k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center · exempt
- Cancer Services Inc · exempt
- St-Elizabeth - Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center LLC · partnership
- Gulf South Oncology Holdings LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: 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 MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION?
- MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,591,669 to it, the largest being KARNIVAL KREWE DE LOUISIANE INC ($515,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,591,669 in grants to MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION?
- KARNIVAL KREWE DE LOUISIANE INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION 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 16 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