California · Nonprofit
TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC
TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,364,711 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($4,316,834). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Teen Cancer America Inc does
Mission
The mission of teen cancer america is to increase survival and improve the lives of adolescents and young adults with cancer by transforming health systems to better serve their needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Tca partners with health systems nationwide to create services and systems tailored for young people with cancer. In fy25, we awarded grants to 3 new programs.to date, we have: - partnered with 73 health systems to design and implement dedicated adolescent and young adult (aya) cancer programs.- consulted and collaborated on research with leading medical institutions.- positively impacted outcomes for 200,000 young people and their families.professional education - through innovative online programs, including the monthly drip and the program advisory forum, teen cancer america extends our reach to provide expert guidance and support to the broader adolescent and young adult network of health care professionals. In fy25, the monthly drip had 9 new presentations, and the program advisory group had 11 meetings. These calls are attended live by 20-50 healthcare professionals and associated non-profit professionals. They are recorded and sent out to a database of over 1,200 people. Our program advisory forum has almost 300 unique members that ask and answer questions, share resources and help create a cooperative healthcare network.play it back music - our groundbreaking music program…
$2,899,597 spentof which $1,214,650 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,899,597.
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 2018 to 2019, from $3.0M to $4.8M (+63%).
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: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Rebecca Rothstein
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.8M.
17 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 27% · 2019 64% · 2020 31% · 2021 21% · 2022 57% · 2023 74% — diversifying over time.
“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
15% of TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
79% of TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside California, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC's revenue grew 111% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC: 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 TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC?
- TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC (California) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,364,711 to it, the largest being UCLA FOUNDATION ($4,316,834). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $7,364,711 in grants to TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC?
- UCLA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,316,834 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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