Maryland · Nonprofit
THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION
THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,132 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($17,132). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $17k
- Net assets
- $103k
What The Barnett-Searing National Cancer Foundation does
Mission
Support cancer patients and their families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
As part of the foundation's commitment to spreading joy and hope, The Barnett-Searing National Cancer Foundation sends "smile kits" to women undergoing cancer treatment. These care packages consist of comforting items like a soft blanket, a journal, coloring books and colored pencils, cozy socks, personalized lip balm, and more. To add a personal touch, each package includes encouraging cards crafted by dedicated volunteers, students, and fellow survivors. 478 kits were provided to cancer patients during the year ended december 31, 2025. Additionally, annual gifts are sent out to survivors, to celebrate their "cancerversary". These gifts include bracelets, necklaces and journals. 74 gifts were provided to women who had survived cancer during the year ended december 31, 2025. Registration fees for the livestrong challenge for two women in the bsncf community were also paid.
$24,336 spentof which $6,940 as grants83% of program spendingLee's friends: helping people live with cancer - norfolk, virginia - the organization provided funding to assist them in providing support to gynecologic cancer patients and their families.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,336.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $139k to $86k (−38%).
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.
88% of THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John Searing
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION's revenue fell 36% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION?
- THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION (Maryland) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,132 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($17,132). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,132 in grants to THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $17,132 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BARNETT-SEARING NATIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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