Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC
THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,648 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($162,155). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $346k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $660k
- Net assets
- $364k
What Thinkbig Pediatric Cancer Fund Inc does
Mission
Thinkbig's mission is to relieve stress of everyday financial expenses so families who are battling pediatric cancer can concentrate on treatment and healing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 2014, thinkbig has supported more than 332 families with over $1,900,000 in financial assistance. We help families cover rent or mortgage payments, utility bills, and other unpaid medical expenses. Thinkbig also provides assistance with funeral costs for families who have lost a child to pediatric cancer. We have assisted families receiving care at several medical centers, including geisinger janet weis children's hospital, children's hospital of philadelphia, chop, st. Christopher's hospital for children, sloan kettering memorial, st. Jude's hospital for children, lehigh valley reilly children's hospital, and penn state health golisano children's hospital.
$254,265 spentof which $230,451 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,265.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $164k to $445k (+172%).
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: 2018 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
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
Diane Dutko
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $17k → $46k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC’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
THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
69% 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 THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 50% · 2020 53% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% — 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
40% of THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
53% of THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC'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 $307k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC is better cushioned than half of the 8,464 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC?
- THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $659,648 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA ($162,155). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $659,648 in grants to THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC?
- FIRST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PARTNERSHIP OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $162,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THINKBIG PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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