Louisiana · Nonprofit
TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA
TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,500 to it, the largest being Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Inc ($102,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $224k
- Net assets
- $153k
What Taking Aim at Cancer in Louisiana does
Mission
Tacl is louisianas united force to reduce cancer mortality by eliminating racial disparities and health inequities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Cancer screening registry for colorectal cancer: to reduce redundancy and streamline reporting by creating a single state-wide cancer screening registry for louisiana so more efficient access is available to reliable population base screening date for colorectal and breast cancer.
$45,776 spent25% of program spendingBuild public awareness campaign: to increase awareness among louisiana citizens on the need/frequency of crc screening and educate providers on latest screening guidelines and acceptable screening modalities.
$27,466 spent15% of program spendingLouisiana payer council: to align payer systems around tacls goals and priorities and coordinate and align efforts to remove barriers to colorectal cancer screening.
$27,465 spent15% of program spendingCommunity health worker training: continuing education offered to community health workers on breast and colorectal cancer.
$27,465 spent15% of program spendingExpanding access to colonoscopies: explore opportunities to increase access by expanding scope of providers accepting medicaid and expanding after hours and weekend colonoscopies.
$18,310 spent10% of program spendingAdherence to breast cancer treatment protocols: to help ensure appropriate evidence-based measures are put in place to help improve outcomes for patients facing breast cancer.
$9,155 spent5% of program spendingIncreasing colorectal cancer screening in primary care practices: established systems that support office practices that will result in reliable and sustainable screening and follow-up systems for crc screening to intiation of treatment in federally qualified health centers and rural health centers. Tacl has contracted with the louisiana cancer control and prevention program (lcp) to implement a learning collaborative with 5 identified primary care practices who serve a majority of medical patients to help them implement evidence-based interventions to increase their current colorectal cancer screening rates. This will be a virtual learning series over 12 months that will bring clinicians together to learn best practices that will help set-up reliable systems throughout the screening process. Tacls roll will be to work with lcp to oversee the planning and intervention. Lcp will ultimately be responsible for the implementation.
$9,155 spent5% of program spendingMco community health worker pilot: managed care organizations funded a pilot region for community health workers to focus on education and navagating individuals to screening. This was done through the organizations working committees, the louisiana prayer concil.
$9,155 spent5% of program spendingTransportation for patients receiving breast and colorectal cancer treatment with louisiana united way, 211 and lyft founded by bcbs foundation in louisiana. Providing free rides through lyft to cancer patients recieving treatment from 4 cancer treatment centers across louisiana for breast and colorectal cancer.
$9,155 spent5% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,102.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $111k to $239k (+115%).
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 12% · 2022 59% · 2023 46% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Terry Birkhoff
Executive director
Board chair
Vince Sedminik
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $30k → $42k.
From the IRS filings of TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA’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
TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 2022 59% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA?
- TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $223,500 to it, the largest being Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Inc ($102,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $223,500 in grants to TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA?
- Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Inc is the largest funder on record, with $102,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAKING AIM AT CANCER IN LOUISIANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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