Tennessee · Nonprofit
Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research
Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research (Tennessee) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research's revenue fell 26% between 2023 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,769 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio match
- Young Texans Against Cancerportfolio match
- Grace Hospice Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
100% of Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Ambers Antibodies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Young Texans Against Cancerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Hospice Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marcum Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cancer League of Colorado Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Equine Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Cancer Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sky High for Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DiPaolo Family Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Expect Miracles Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L E Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golf Fights Cancer Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research?
- Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research (Tennessee) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research have?
- IRS filings report 0 organizations giving $0 in grants to Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research.
- How can an organization like Van Stephenson Memorial Cancer Research 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 FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 0funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing