Indiana · Nonprofit
VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC
VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,871,169 to it, the largest being BARBARA BRADLEY BAEKGAARD FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O JOAN BYRNE HALL TRUSTEE ($525,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $507k
What Vera Bradley Foundation for Breast Cancer Inc does
Mission
The vera bradley foundation for breast cancer raises funds for research to find a cure and to improve the lives of the many affected by this disease.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Since its inception in 1998, the organization has contributed 42.7 million to breast cancer research through six major endowments to the iu school of medicine to support the vera bradley chair in oncology and to establish the vera bradley foundation center for breast cancer research. The vera bradley foundation center houses a multidisciplinary team focused on genetic research. This data could lead to earlier breast cancer diagnosis and more effective treatments and therapies.
$1,082,958 spentof which $1,029,635 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,082,958.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.9M to $918k (−50%).
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.
103% of VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $140k → $231k.
12 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 36% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 25% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $923k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 33 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC: 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 VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC?
- VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,871,169 to it, the largest being BARBARA BRADLEY BAEKGAARD FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O JOAN BYRNE HALL TRUSTEE ($525,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,871,169 in grants to VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC?
- BARBARA BRADLEY BAEKGAARD FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O JOAN BYRNE HALL TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERA BRADLEY FOUNDATION FOR BREAST CANCER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 41 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