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PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team
PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,417 to it, the largest being Dr Donald N & Jane L Berning Private Foundation ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $130k
- Net assets
- $186k
What PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team does
Mission
Paddling for Cancer Awareness helps form and sustain cancer survivor dragon boat racing teams and support teams. Supports the emotional, physical and mental needs of cancer survivors, including but not limited to breast cancer survivors. Helps other breast cancer dragon boat teams recruit, train, and participate in dragon boat races and festivals. Supports Dragon Boat festivals and events that support cancer awareness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Direct patient support at four local hospitals working with nurse navigators, women's wellness and direct recommendations - $10,000.
$0 spentof which $9,665 as grants
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $169k to $186k (+10%).
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.
88% of PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Colleen Murray
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $20k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team’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
PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $342 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team: 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 PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team?
- PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,417 to it, the largest being Dr Donald N & Jane L Berning Private Foundation ($90,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $130,417 in grants to PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team?
- Dr Donald N & Jane L Berning Private Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PADDLING FOR CANCER AWARENESS INC Kentucky Thorough-Breasts Dragon Boat Team find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 3 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