Desert Cancer Foundation

Analysis

Desert Cancer Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Palm Desert, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1995, 31 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 December 2023, Desert Cancer Foundation reported income of $890k and spending of $769k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $749k to $890k (+19%), an average of +4.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Desert Cancer Foundation sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile, and in the 79th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Reformed Mission Services Inc ($890k), Blessing Community Health Center ($891k) and Agape House Inc of Mountain View ($890k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 104% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $231k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $120k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 8 employees.