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THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION

THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,911,847 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($622,908). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.8M
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$3.9M
Net assets
$1.2M
26/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Thrivewell Cancer Foundation does

Mission

Thrivewell Cancer Foundation is dedicated to finding a cure for cancer by funding cancer research, providing patient support, and offering programs to improve the quality of life for patients and their families.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Thrivewell Cancer Foundation provides patients with financial assistance to help offset the costs associated with their medical care, as well as treatment related transportation and lodging. The goal of the program is to give patients the best possible chance of beating the disease while eliminating the added stressors that go hand-in-hand with cancer. During 2025 thrivewell's patient assistance program provided lodging, transportation and financial support to 1,763 cancer patients.

    $2,445,495 spent
    78% of program spending
  2. Thrivewell's diva&dude program provides exercise, nutrition and wellness classes to cancer patients and survivors in san antonio and bexar county. Research shows that women and men who exercise, follow a healthy diet and adhere to their recommended hormonal or chemotherapy, have a reduction in cancer mortality by up to 50%. As of december 31, 2025, the diva&dude program offered both virtual classes and 60 in-person classes each week at 8 different locations across san antonio and bexar county. More than 2,000 women and men are on the diva&dude roster.

    $664,461 spent
    21% of program spending
  3. THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION FUNDED TWO CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH GRANTS IN 2025. Developing an off-the-shelf, supercharging CAR-NKT cell therapy for liver cancer Gang Huang, MD and Targeting lymphotoxin beta receptor to improve immunotherapy of pancreatic cancer - Alexei Tumanov, MD, PhD

    $25,544 spentof which $25,544 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,135,500.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($679k) Expenses 100 ($739k) Net assets 100 ($817k)2018 Revenue 241 ($1.6M) Expenses 173 ($1.3M) Net assets 144 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 317 ($2.2M) Expenses 213 ($1.6M) Net assets 214 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 242 ($1.6M) Expenses 249 ($1.8M) Net assets 190 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 959 ($6.5M) Expenses 320 ($2.4M) Net assets 697 ($5.7M)2022 Revenue 203 ($1.4M) Expenses 651 ($4.8M) Net assets 277 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 258 ($1.8M) Expenses 354 ($2.6M) Net assets 171 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 485 ($3.3M) Expenses 383 ($2.8M) Net assets 228 ($1.9M)2025 Revenue 417 ($2.8M) Expenses 468 ($3.5M) Net assets 152 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (417)Expenses (468)Net assets (152)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $5.9M (+254%).

$875k
$1.2M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$5.9M
$2.4M
$1.5M
$1.9M
$1.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

59% of THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$60k
’17
$358k
’18
$575k
’19
−$199k
’20
$4.1M
’21
−$3.4M
’22
−$865k
’23
$467k
’24
−$627k
’25
4.4
months of
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.

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Listed131518171819181918
Joined·+2+3+0+1+1+2+1+5
No longer listed·00100306
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $133k → $420k.

12 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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

THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% 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

65% 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 THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION.

16%
largest funder
40%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 27% · 2019 27% · 2020 57% · 2021 21% · 2022 20% · 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

30% of THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.

MN
IA
IN
CA
UT
VA
TN
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 6%Fundraising 4%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION?
THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,911,847 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($622,908). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,911,847 in grants to THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION?
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $622,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THRIVEWELL CANCER FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 55 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