New Jersey · Nonprofit
THE VALERIE FUND
THE VALERIE FUND (New Jersey) receives grants from 190 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,795,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,089,269). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 190
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $20M
What The Valerie Fund does
Mission
To raise funds to support comprehensive healthcare for children with cancer and blood disorders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
CentersThe Valerie Fund supports psychosocial programs including child life activities and social work programs at eight hospital-based valerie fund centers in new york & new jersey. Children and their families visited the centers more than 31,000 times in 2024 to be treated for cancer and blood disorders.
$4,598,803 spentof which $3,476,719 as grants74% of program spendingCamp happy timesThe Valerie Fund operates camp happy times, a free one-week summer camp for children with cancer. Camp happy times served 100+ children and teenage patient leaders-in-training.additionally, The Valerie Fund provides transportation and funding for approximately 100 children with cancer and blood disorders to attend other camp programs designed for their needs throughout the year.
$433,539 spent7% of program spendingAdvocacyThe Valerie Fund engages in year round advocacy and support for the children treated with cancer and blood disorders. The fund has created a scholarship program to promote education and advancement of children treated at the centers. In 2024, there were 129 cancer and blood disorders students who received higher education scholarships. The fund also provides funding for the psycho-social staff to attend national conferences to enhance the psychologial and emotional care of the children under treatment. The Valerie Fund also provides emergency funding to support our patient families.
$1,158,287 spentof which $1,182,885 as grants19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,190,629.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $16M (+31%).
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 2% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Barry Kirschner
Executive director
Board chair
Neil Yaris
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 43 funders to 72 funders, grant income rose $714k → $2.0M.
23 of 190 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $26k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Hope & Heroes Children's Cancer Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE VALERIE FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE VALERIE FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 190 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 VALERIE FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
56% 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 VALERIE FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 20% · 2019 16% · 2020 9% · 2021 10% · 2022 35% · 2023 17% — diversifying over time.
“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
48% of THE VALERIE FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
52% of THE VALERIE FUND'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. Of the $8.5M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Organizations like THE VALERIE FUND
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE VALERIE FUND: 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 VALERIE FUND?
- THE VALERIE FUND (New Jersey) receives grants from 190 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,795,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,089,269). 106 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE VALERIE FUND have?
- IRS filings report 190 organizations giving $17,795,000 in grants to THE VALERIE FUND, 106 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE VALERIE FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,089,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE VALERIE FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 190 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