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The Huff Project

The Huff Project (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,753 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$13k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$33k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What The Huff Project does

Mission

To raise awareness and research funds for lung cancer, ultimately increasing survival.?

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The mission of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.Lung Cancer Research Foundation

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($42k)2019 Revenue 76 ($52k) Expenses 155 ($41k) Net assets 127 ($54k)2020 Revenue 22 ($15k) Expenses 105 ($28k) Net assets 97 ($41k)2021 Revenue 30 ($21k) Expenses 68 ($18k) Net assets 104 ($44k)2022 Revenue 98 ($68k) Expenses 284 ($75k) Net assets 86 ($37k)2023 Revenue 67 ($46k) Expenses 226 ($60k) Net assets 54 ($23k)2024 Revenue 18 ($13k) Expenses 10 ($3k) Net assets 77 ($33k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (18)Expenses (10)Net assets (77)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $37k to $23k (−38%).

$42k
$54k
$41k
$44k
$37k
$23k
$33k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assets

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of The Huff Project’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’18
$12k
’19
−$13k
’20
$3k
’21
−$7k
’22
−$14k
’23
$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $5k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Huff Project’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

The Huff Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

27% 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 The Huff Project.

70%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% — 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.

Where its funders are

The Huff Project draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 2 states in all.

MO
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

The Huff Project runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,898 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin79% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−25% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

TN

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Huff Project: 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 Huff Project?
The Huff Project (Tennessee) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,753 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($16,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Huff Project have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $22,753 in grants to The Huff Project, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Huff Project?
Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $16,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Huff Project find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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