Bismarck Cancer Center

Analysis

Bismarck Cancer Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Bismarck, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1999, 27 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Bismarck Cancer Center reported income of $16.6m and spending of $15.0m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $16.0m to $16.6m (+4.2%), an average of +1.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 80% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bismarck Cancer Center 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 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gold Cross Ambulance Service Inc ($16.6m), Hennepin Health Foundation ($16.7m) and Upmc ($16.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 9.7% and program service revenue 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $3.8m (25% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.8m. At year end it held assets of $42.8m against liabilities of $1.2m, net assets of $41.6m. It reported 64 employees.