Maryland · Nonprofit
SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (Maryland) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,980,058 to it, the largest being THE JOHN W O'BRIEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($570,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Sarcoma Foundation of America does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to advocate for sarcoma patients by funding research and by increasing awareness about the disease. The organization raises money to privately fund grants for sarcoma researchers and conducts education and advocacy efforts on behalf of sarcoma patients.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Sarcoma Foundation of America (sfa) coordinates a national research grant program that funds translational science sarcoma research. In accordance with the mission of the sfa, research involving the development of novel agents against sarcoma, or research that could potentially lead to the development of novel agents against sarcoma, is supported through this funding. The sfa engages in patient education programs on the latest developments in sarcoma research and treatments. These education initiatives are designed to further strengthen and deepen patients' ability to participate in their care and research projects. Sfa also conducts advocacy activities on behalf of the sarcoma community to ensure adequate federal cancer research funding levels and policies that positively impact sarcoma patients.
$3,244,504 spentof which $1,239,448 as grants$3,201 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,244,504.
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 $7.9M to $9.6M (+23%).
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: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Brandi Felser
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $174k → $849k.
26 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 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
SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
71% 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 SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 19% · 2019 29% · 2020 23% · 2021 25% · 2022 40% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
20% of SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
66% of SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 30 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 32 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: 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 SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA?
- SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA (Maryland) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,980,058 to it, the largest being THE JOHN W O'BRIEN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($570,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $3,980,058 in grants to SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA?
- THE JOHN W O'BRIEN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 155 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