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PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH

PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($685,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$286k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$750k
Net assets
$47k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Phillips-Amick Foundation for Cancer Research does

Mission

At the Phillips-Amick Foundation for Cancer Research, we envision a future where medical breakthroughs are commonplace and accessible to all. We strive to make a positive impact on the lives of patients and their families through our work in cancer research and development.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Elios holdings is conducting an fda sanctioned phase I/2a "basket trial" in greenville, sc testing its proprietary therapeutic cancer vaccine across a wide range of cancer types. The elios technology incorporates the cancer patients' own tumor into a therapeutic cancer vaccine administered through a series of six interdermal injections.

    $261,224 spent$285,952 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $261,224.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($6k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2020 Revenue 167 ($10k) Net assets 559 ($12k)2021 Revenue 2 ($143) Expenses 13 ($500) Net assets 543 ($12k)2022 Revenue 956 ($57k) Expenses 20 ($766) Net assets 3141 ($68k)2023 Revenue 4255 ($255k) Expenses 6125 ($234k) Net assets 4114 ($90k)2024 Revenue 7613 ($457k) Expenses 13212 ($505k) Net assets 1901 ($41k)2025 Revenue 4766 ($286k) Expenses 7347 ($281k) Net assets 2137 ($47k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (4766)Expenses (7347)Net assets (2137)Peer revenue range

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 $12k to $68k (+479%).

$2k
$12k
$12k
$68k
$90k
$41k
$47k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’19
$10k
’20
−$357
’21
$57k
’22
$21k
’23
−$48k
’24
$5k
’25
2.0
months of
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.

Board chair

Riley Polk

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed333
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH’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

PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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

95% 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 PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH.

91%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

95% of PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $40k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from South Carolina funders.

SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve2.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)90% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH?
PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH (South Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,000 to it, the largest being CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($685,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $750,000 in grants to PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH?
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $685,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHILLIPS-AMICK FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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