Virginia · Nonprofit
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn (Virginia) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,699,888 to it, the largest being MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC ($1,620,716). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.1M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $7.7M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn does
Mission
Prevent Cancer Foundation's mission is to empower people to stay ahead of cancer through prevention and early detection. We carry out our mission in four key ways: support of cancer prevention and early detection research, education, outreach, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Educating people about how they can prevent cancer and detect it early through healthy lifestyle choices and routine medical screenings. The Foundation holds several educational conferences for professionals in the cancer field. We educate the public about cancer screenings and cancer prevention through online resources, easy-to-understand messaging on our website and social media platforms, national media, and more. The Foundation's Guide to Preventing Cancer outlines the nine cancers the Foundation focuses on (+ viruses and cancer), and includes symptoms, risk factors, ways to reduce risk, and screening methods.
$3,404,263 spentof which $228,754 as grants$9,124 earned by the program56% of program spendingResearch. The Foundation funds researchers and fellowships in the nation's most prestigious academic medical centers. This research increases insight into these diseases and allows us to better understand how to prevent cancer or detect it early, when it is more likely to be successfully treated. The fellowships enable the transfer of information between institutions and countries to facilitate the use of best practices in the field.
$1,200,413 spentof which $950,300 as grants20% of program spendingOutreach. Reaching out to communities through programs that allow us to fund globally and act locally. By empowering those who know their communities best, we are able to lend a hand to implement lifesaving cancer prevention and early detection programs that benefit all populations, especially the medically underserved.
$1,450,357 spentof which $774,196 as grants24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,055,033.
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 $15M to $19M (+27%).
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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn’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. 3 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.
Board chair
William Magner
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 36 funders to 33 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $834k.
17 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
83% 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 Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 44% · 2019 45% · 2020 24% · 2021 16% · 2022 24% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“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
36% of Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: 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 Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn?
- Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn (Virginia) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,699,888 to it, the largest being MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC ($1,620,716). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $7,699,888 in grants to Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn, 60 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn?
- MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,620,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 113 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