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THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY
THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,400,223 to it, the largest being PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ($670,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What The National Children's Cancer Society does
Mission
The National Children's Cancer Society (nccs) provides vital and unique services for children with cancer, their families, and survivors. Our comprehensive programs support children and their families at every state of their journey, addressing immediate and long-term needs - from diagnosis and treatment to survivorship and beyond.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Global outreach program - providing pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to treat childen with cancer around the world.
$1,515,630 spentof which $1,515,630 as grants30% of program spendingThe National Children's Cancer Society, through its patient and family services department, offers programs and services to families making their way through the daunting world of childhood cancer, including:transportation assistance fund: ensures children with cancer have access to treatment. The fund alleviates the financial burden of travel and lodging for families who have a child with cancer. This includes transportation expenses such as mileage and airfare, and lodging when a child needs to stay near the hospital for treatment and nonprofit lodging is unavailable.emergency assistance fund: provides a cash stipend to families who have a child that has been inpatient or away from home for (30) consecutive days. Assistance may be used for mortgage, rent, utility payments, childcare, health insurance premiums, car expenses or treatment-related expenses such as meals away from home, prescriptions and parking. Beyond the cure: prepares childhood cancer survivors and their families for life after cancer by offering a web-based information center on late effects and a late effects assessment tool, archived web conferences, links to resources, community conferences, educational…
$3,275,967 spentof which $1,076,162 as grants65% of program spendingPublic information and education - The National Children's Cancer Society provides information to the general public to educate them about cancer's youngest victims, children, and to educate the public about the services offerred by The National Children's Cancer Society to benefit children with cancer. The National Children's Cancer Society also provides informational brochures to educate the public on how they can help children with cancer by donating blood for needed transfusions and by volunteering to donate marrow or cord blood for potentially life-saving transplants.
$274,389 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,065,986.
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.
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 $6.1M to $11M (+74%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Mark Stolze
President & CEO
Board chair
Scott Stringer
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $50k → $291k.
12 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 22% · 2019 20% · 2020 61% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 36 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY?
- THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY (Illinois) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,400,223 to it, the largest being PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ($670,000). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $2,400,223 in grants to THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY?
- PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC is the largest funder on record, with $670,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 135 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