Arizona · Nonprofit
THE CACTIS FOUNDATION
THE CACTIS FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being JOHN F LONG FOUNDATION INC ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $60k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $-33624
What The Cactis Foundation does
Mission
The Cactis Foundation is a community-based 501(c)3 institution focused on advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. We accomplish this by supporting research-oriented preclinical and clinical programs, and early phase clinical trials and continuing medical education (cme) programs for health care professionals. Our current focus includes personalized medicine, theranostics and traumatic brain injury (tbi) aka concussions, in young athletes, victims of intimate partner violence (ipv), industrial and motor vehicle accidents, the military and first responders, with a significant attention to addressing health care delivery disparities and underserved populations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The CACTIS Foundation continues to lead and coordinate the MC3DV (Maricopa County Collaboration on Concussion from Domestic Violence) with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office Family Violence Bureau, the Mesa and Tempe, Arizona Police Departments, the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix (UACOM-P), and the Phoenix VA Healthcare System Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program. The CACTIS Foundation continues to investigate and address the frequency and impact of TBI in the underrepresented, diverse cohort of intimate partner violence victims (women, men, and children), participate in educational programs and baseline concussion testing of youth athlete organizations focusing on concussions. CACTIS initiated and continues to emphasize the analysis of local, regional, and national data with the goal of creating a concussion registry and developing a "Best Practices" concussion assessment and treatment program in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Health Services. CACTIS has hosted and sponsored none (9) annual programs in Phoenix, Arizona since 2010: "Concussions: Advances in Sports Medicine and The Public Health Epidemic: Traumatic Brain Injuries in…
$39,689 spentof which $1,770 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $39,689.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $55k to $17k (−69%).
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.
0% of THE CACTIS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Hirsch Handmaker Md
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE CACTIS 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 CACTIS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
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
THE CACTIS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like THE CACTIS FOUNDATION
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE CACTIS FOUNDATION: 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 THE CACTIS FOUNDATION?
- THE CACTIS FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being JOHN F LONG FOUNDATION INC ($4,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CACTIS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,000 in grants to THE CACTIS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CACTIS FOUNDATION?
- JOHN F LONG FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CACTIS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2019–2024), 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