Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation

Analysis

Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Moses Lake, WA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, 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 December 2023, Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation reported income of $365k and spending of $320k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $446k to $365k (-18%), an average of -4.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Columbia Basin Cancer Foundation sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within WA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Prancing Horse Inc ($365k), Hamblen County Substance Abuse Coalition ($365k) and Sitting Well at the Well Inc ($365k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $72k (23% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $39k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $50k, net assets of $2.0m. It reported 4 employees.