Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation

Analysis

Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in New York, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1947, 79 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation reported income of $15.7m and spending of $21.2m, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $21.0m to $15.7m (-25%), an average of -7.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2020, when income rose by 158%. Over the whole period it spent 89% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation sits at the 87th percentile: it is larger than about 87% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Renown Transitional Care Services ($15.7m), Sun Health Services ($15.7m) and David Raines Community Health Center Inc ($15.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 58% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $550k (2.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.6m. At year end it held assets of $147.7m against liabilities of $32.9m, net assets of $114.8m. It reported 21 employees.