California · Nonprofit
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 927 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,918,124 to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($49,950,000). 426 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $42M
- Funders on record
- 927
- Grants received
- $104M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to take bold action to improve the lives of everyone impacted by pancreatic cancer by advancing scientific research, building community, sharing knowledge, and advocating for patients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research - pancan funds groundbreaking research initiatives that will transform the way pancreatic cancer is detected and treated. We fund research grants to individual investigators and large-scale, multi-institutional clinical projects that are focused on advancing new treatments and early detection for pancreatic cancer. We invested arecord $25 million in research in fiscal year 2022. Research funding that supported important research projects at institutions across the country, and pancan's precision promise adaptive clinical trial, early detection initiative, know your tumor precision medicine service, and patient registry. Since 2003, pancan has awarded 234 research grants to 213 scientists at 79 institutions. Pancan's cumulative research investment is now more than $174 million, making a significant impact grants to 213 scientists at 79 institutions. Pancan's cumulative research investment is now more than $174 million, making a significant impact on the diagnosis, treatment and care of today's patients and those who will be diagnosed in the future.
$26,824,334 spentof which $10,191,634 as grants$7,241,610 earned by the program67% of program spendingCommunity engagement - 59 volunteer-led affiliates with over 2,400 volunteers raise awareness of pancan and the disease and educate their communities about pancreatic cancer. Volunteers hosted 60 purplestride events across the country this past year, over 56,000 participants registered supporting survivors, families and friends, as well as providing educational information at the events. We are also a founding member of the world pancreatic cancer coalition, comprising more than 90 pancreatic cancer patient advocacy groups from over 30 countries and six continents. The coalition hosts world pancreatic cancer day every november to raise global awareness of the disease. Purplestride participants raised over $12.5 million.
$6,981,104 spent18% of program spendingPatient services - provides free, personalized information and resources about pancreatic cancer, treatment options, clinical trials, diet and nutrition, specialists and support resources to help patients, caregivers and healthcare providers. We have the largest, most up-to-date clinical trials database in the country and provide constitutents with personalized searches so that they understand all of their treatment options. Our expert patient services case managers share more resources and speak with more pancreatic cancer patients than any other organization in the world. Last year alone, we had nearly 48,000 interactions with pancreatic cancer patients and families.
$4,635,006 spent12% of program spendingGovernment affairs and advocacy - we drive legislative support for increased federal research funding for pancreatic cancer. Our grassroots advocacy efforts led to the passage of the recalcitrant cancer research act, increased research dollars for pancreatic cancer at the national cancer institute, and led to a new pancreatic cancer research program at the department of defense. Since our founding, federal research funding for pancreatic cancer has increased by 900 percent and continues to increase each year due to our efforts.
$1,403,585 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,844,029.
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 2023 to 2024, from $81M to $56M (−30%).
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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Julie Fleshman
President & CEO/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 154 funders to 315 funders, grant income rose $7.7M → $15M.
83 of 927 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 927 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
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 57% · 2019 56% · 2020 47% · 2021 48% · 2022 37% · 2023 46% — 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
30% of PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC's funding base is broadening — from 154 funders to 315 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC?
- PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC (California) receives grants from 927 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,918,124 to it, the largest being The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc ($49,950,000). 426 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 927 organizations giving $103,918,124 in grants to PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC, 426 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC?
- The Skip Viragh Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $49,950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 927 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