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Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn

Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn (Virginia) receives grants from 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,687,338 to it, the largest being MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC ($1,620,716). 60 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.1M
Revenue FY2024
111
Funders on record
$7.7M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
60/111 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 21%

Against its field

Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn is better cushioned than half of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.9M) Expenses 100 ($7.1M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 106 ($7.3M) Expenses 97 ($6.9M) Net assets 105 ($12M)2019 Revenue 95 ($6.6M) Expenses 94 ($6.7M) Net assets 106 ($12M)2020 Revenue 86 ($5.9M) Expenses 91 ($6.5M) Net assets 103 ($12M)2021 Revenue 134 ($9.2M) Expenses 116 ($8.3M) Net assets 143 ($17M)2022 Revenue 123 ($8.5M) Expenses 117 ($8.3M) Net assets 121 ($14M)2023 Revenue 130 ($8.9M) Expenses 114 ($8.1M) Net assets 137 ($16M)2024 Revenue 117 ($8.1M) Expenses 113 ($8.1M) Net assets 145 ($17M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (113)Net assets (145)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,590 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$238k
17
$377k
18
$169k
19
$571k
20
$931k
21
$140k
22
$834k
23
$13k
24
4.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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 111 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 111 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.

21%
largest funder
41%
top three
~12
effective funders

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; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 111 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 13%Fundraising 19%

Governance

25
board members
96%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

AK
ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
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AR
TN
NC
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DC
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LA
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AL
GA
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FL

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

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 111 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,687,338 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 111 organizations giving $7,687,338 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 111funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing