Colorado · Nonprofit
Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,540 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($38,158). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $231k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research does
Mission
The mission of Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research is to raise awareness and funding for pancreatic cancer research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
8/25 - Kingsbury Open Golf TournamentWings of Hope co-hosted the Kingsbury Open in Larkspur, Colorado for the purpose of informing, educating and raising awareness to the symptoms of pancreatic cancer, the ongoing research, clinical trials, and to raise funding for pancreatic cancer research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO.
11/25 - EVENING OF LIGHTHosted annual benefit at Denver Botanic Gardens which included reception and presentation by physicians and researchers describing current research and advances in pancreatic cancer research taking place at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus
9/25 - EVENING OF HOPEHosted annual fundraising benefit which included a sit down dinner and featured local artists who support the effort, along with presentations by phycicians, researchers and patients from the University of Colorado Cancer Center for the purpose of informing, educating, and raising awareness to the symptoms of pancreatic cancer, ongoing research, clinical trials, current treatments, and to raise funding for pancreatic cancer research at the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research provides funding by way of an annual grant process specifically for pancreatic cancer research projects taking place at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anshutz Medical Campus.
$200,000 spentof which $200,000 as grants100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $200,000.
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 $147k to $351k (+138%).
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.
48% of Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Maureen Shul
CEO, Board member
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $9k → $11k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research’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
Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
85% 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 Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 47% · 2019 78% · 2020 46% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 57% — 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
29% of Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research'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
81% of Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research'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 $32k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $143k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research has grown faster than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 Wings of Hope for Pancreatic 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research?
- Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research (Colorado) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,540 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($38,158). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $175,540 in grants to Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,158 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wings of Hope for Pancreatic Cancer Research find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 15 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