Ohio · Nonprofit
Melanoma Know More
Melanoma Know More (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,233 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($32,250). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $185k
- Net assets
- $185k
What Melanoma Know More does
Mission
Melanoma Know More strives to reduce the impact of melanoma through awareness, education, support of medical research, and assistance to persons affected by melanoma.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Melanoma Know More partnered with the Cincinnati Open Tennis to provide sun safety education and melanoma awareness. Volunteers provided free sun screen to the over 280,000 patrons over the fourteen days of the tennis tournament. Melanoma Know More also expanded our free screening clinics to Grant County, KY.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Melanoma Know More partnered with Cincinnati Open Tennis Tournament to provide a booth with skin cancer education, awareness and prevention information. Free sunscreen was provided for the 285, 571 people in attendance. Melanoma Know More volunteers staffed a booth, circulated in the crowds distributing sunscreen and provided seven stationary sunscreen dispensers throughout the facility. The tournament ran fourteen days from August 5 to August 18.
$60,589 spent$16,243 earned by the program58% of program spendingMelanoma Know More Education & Prevention: Melanoma Know More continued the partnership with the Girl Scouts, with the sun safety badge programs. An online education guide was provided for Troop Leaders and girls to learn about sun safety. At the completion, girls are able to earn a badge. This program is available at no cost to any Girl Scout. There was also participation in numerous health fairs. For Patient Outreach, Melanoma Know More created a program using AI to increase to help expand cancer screening opportunities for patients. Melanoma Know More also participated in community health fairs to increase awareness and promote sun safety.
$21,814 spent$3,500 earned by the program21% of program spendingFree Monthly Skin Cancer Screening Clinics: On the second Saturday of every month from 10am - noon, a cancer screening clinic is scheduled and supported by dermatologists, nurses, and administrative staff, who volunteer their time to detect skin cancer, specifically melanoma. If one of the volunteer dermatologists notes a suspicious finding that could potentially be a melanoma, the patient is expedited within four weeks from the clinic date to a dermatologist for further evaluation and a possible biopsy. Melanoma Know More is the only organization in the US to provide such consistent screenings. A new clinic was added for Grant County, KY, expanding the service area. And hosting a clinic for First Responders was continued from the previous year. In 2025, Melanoma Know More provided 9 free skin cancer screening clinics, 438 patients were screened during the year.
$14,958 spent$10,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingMelanoma Know More Community Outreach and Prevention: Melanoma Know More partnered with Swim Safe Pool Management to provide free sunscreen at area pools by deploying sponsored sunscreen dispensers. With the collaboration, free sunscreen was provided for fourteen area pools throughout the Greater Cincinnati Community, including two new locations in Indiana. Using SPF 30 sunscreen is a sun-protective practice that can prevent the risk of skin cancer. Impact was estimated at 11,000 individuals supported. Melanoma Know More also created an education and prevention video specifically for Swim Safe Pool's lifeguard training. Impact was around 400 lifeguards.
$6,962 spent$9,600 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,323.
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 2020 to 2021, from $286k to $215k (−25%).
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.
71% of Melanoma Know More’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Rene McPHedran
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $21k → $47k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 Melanoma Know More’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
Melanoma Know More has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 Melanoma Know More.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 85% · 2021 56% · 2022 36% · 2023 36% — 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
20% of Melanoma Know More's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
82% of Melanoma Know More's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k 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
Melanoma Know More's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Melanoma Know More
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Melanoma Know More: 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 Melanoma Know More?
- Melanoma Know More (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $185,233 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($32,250). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Melanoma Know More have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $185,233 in grants to Melanoma Know More, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Melanoma Know More?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $32,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Melanoma Know More find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 21 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