Tennessee · Nonprofit
Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation
Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,634 to it, the largest being THOMPSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $840k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation does
Mission
Thompson Cancer Survival Center Foundation provides consistent charitable support to Thompson Cancer Survival Center to ensure accessible cancer treatment programs for all people throughout the region regardless of their ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Multidisciplinary Operating Grant:The Foundation provides grant support for the operations of the Multidisciplinary Treatment and Nurse Navigation Program of the Thompson Cancer Survival Center ("TCSC"). Multidisciplinary Treatment is a process of individual patient consultation with members of the patient's oncology care team, where treatment options are discussed based on that individual's circumstances. This approach gives the physician the opportunity to relate one-on-one with the oncology patient and explain treatment choices in layperson's language. Patients needing care coordination come from various Covenant Health organizations and other facilities. The program currently consists of 14 nurses, one department assistant and one conference and patient housing coordinator to support oncology patients throughout the Covenant Health system.Nurse navigators and a department assistant currently organize, oversee, summarize, and provide follow-up for four to five multidisciplinary cancer conferences per week. In 2024, 1,165 patients were presented at multidisciplinary conferences, with 140 of those patients seen in our multidisciplinary clinics where a nurse navigator attends with…
$1,554,660 spentof which $1,554,660 as grants54% of program spendingSocial Services Operating Grant:The Foundation provides grant support for the operations of the Social Services Department of TCSC. The Social Services Department receives referrals from Covenant Health facilities when oncology patients are identified that could benefit from the services provided by this department. In 2024, Social Services supported 2,118 new patient referrals and 6,254 follow-up patients. Additionally, there were 2,763 new patients referred for nutritional counseling and education in 2024 with 4,019 follow-up assessments and 3,254 educational encounters to support those patients. The Social Services Department also offers genetic counseling services including breast cancer and hereditary cancer risk assessments. In 2024, the Genetics Clinic provided services for 1,098 new patients who were in need of genetic counseling. Of those patients, 748 were scheduled, 522 completed genetic counseling, and 412 elected to pursue genetic testing. All patients were able to receive full personal and family history reviews, allowing for a thorough risk assessment for the potential of a hereditary cancer syndrome or other familial risk factors possibly not accounted for through…
$757,056 spentof which $757,056 as grants26% of program spendingClinical Trials Operating Grant:The Foundation provides a grant to TCSC for the operation of its Clinical Trials program. Since the opening of TCSC in 1988, the Clinical Trials Department has enrolled 2,772 patients in clinical trials. In 2024, the TCSC Clinical Trials Department had 7 active treatment patients and 94 patients in follow-up studies. Due to the excellent research reputation of the program's medical director and research team, TCSC continues to have new clinical trial opportunities offered to its research team on a weekly basis. To help with screening efforts for potential clinical trial participants, Research Nurse Coordinators are assigned to specific physician schedules for screening and to specific locations for coverage, including Thompson Oncology Group's Oak Ridge, Sevierville, West Knoxville, Downtown Knoxville, and Lenoir City. Opening new studies increases referrals locally and regionally and gives current patients the ability to be treated with state-of-the-art care in their own community. Involvement in prevention, treatment, and data and specimen collection trials offers an improved means of health strategies for individuals at risk for certain cancers,…
$385,947 spentof which $385,947 as grants13% of program spendingIn addition to the program services detailed above, funding was also provided in 2024 for patient assistance, cancer outreach services, and colon cancer/ostomy education:Patient Assistance:The Thompson Cares Fund, supported by employee and community donations, provides emergency assistance for cancer patients in times of crisis. In 2024, 1,210 patients received assistance with such needs as housing, transportation, utilities, food/nutritional supplements, medical supplies and medications.Cancer Outreach:Thompson Cancer Survival Center Foundation supports the work of TCSC's cancer outreach department that provides free and reduced-cost cancer screenings in the East Tennessee area. In addition to outreach efforts at community health fairs/free clinics, the department provides no-cost mammograms and smoking/vaping cessation education. Early detection and prevention efforts are the first step to help patients be diagnosed quickly or, if possible, never have to battle the disease at all. Colon Cancer/Ostomy Education:In 2022, the foundation began funding a new patient education program focused on colon cancer and ostomy care. Patients benefit from the classes taught both in advance of…
$178,199 spentof which $178,199 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,875,862.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $9.3M (−30%).
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.
87% of Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
James D VanderSteeg
President & CEO
Board chair
Erin Wakefield Mahan
Director/Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $15k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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: $44k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Covenant Health). These are real filings, and they are not money Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr 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
Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 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
Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.
Against its field
Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 29 related entities
- Thompson Cancer Survival Center · exempt
- Covenant Health · exempt
- Claiborne Medical Center · exempt
- Covenant HomeCare · exempt
- Cumberland Medical Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation?
- Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,634 to it, the largest being THOMPSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,634 in grants to Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation?
- THOMPSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation 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.
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 5 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