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THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation

THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,771 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($16,327). 1 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
$39k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$66k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation does

Mission

To provide assisance, including financial, to families facing cancer in our community. Provide annual memorial scholarship in loving memory of our Dad and sister, Kass.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. To provide financial assistance to local families facing a cancer diagnosis. We provided direct financial support to seventy-nine (79) families during 2025.

    $23,921 spent
    92% of program spending
  2. To provide Harnessing Hope cancer care bags to UPMC Cancer Center in Williamsport for distribution to newly diagnosed cancer patients. Provided one hundred (100) bags during 2025.

    $1,655 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. To provide two, free headcovers to female patients experiencing hair loss as a result of cancer treatment, in partnership with Arrow & Thread Handmade Designs. We provided nineteen (19) headcovers during 2025.

    $152 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. To provide bi-monthly wellness sessions in partnership with the Susquehanna Health Foundation. Forty (40) patients participated in these events throughout 2025.

    $318 spent
    1% of program spending
  5. To provide an annual memorial scholarship in loving memory of our Dad and our sister Kass. We awarded one $1,000.00 scholarship during 2025.

    $0 spentof which $1,000 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,046.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($61k)2022 Revenue 118 ($34k) Expenses 150 ($21k) Net assets 122 ($74k)2023 Revenue 103 ($30k) Expenses 232 ($33k) Net assets 118 ($71k)2024 Revenue 48 ($14k) Expenses 211 ($30k) Net assets 92 ($56k)2025 Revenue 134 ($39k) Expenses 206 ($29k) Net assets 108 ($66k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (134)Expenses (206)Net assets (108)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $71k to $56k (−22%).

$61k
$74k
$71k
$56k
$66k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,549 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’21
$13k
’22
−$2k
’23
−$16k
’24
$10k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Krista Paternostro Bower

Chairman & Founder

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $54 → $134.

2 of 2 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 PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro 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.

How concentrated its funding is

THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro 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 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 PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

76%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation?
THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,771 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($16,327). 1 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 PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,771 in grants to THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation?
FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $16,327 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PATERNOSTRO FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA The Paternostro Cancer Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2 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