Cancer Support Community

Analysis

Cancer Support Community is a registered charity in United States, based in Cincinnati, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 December 2023, Cancer Support Community reported income of $811k and spending of $1.1m, spending 131% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $798k to $811k (+1.7%), an average of +0.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 128% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Cancer Support Community sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 77th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Our Fortress Homes Inc ($811k), Effingham Child Development Center ($811k) and Nearly New Thrift Shop of the Morse Geriatric Center ($811k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $116k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $478k. At year end it held assets of $5.6m against liabilities of $156k, net assets of $5.5m. It reported 25 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.