Can Do Cancer

Analysis

Can Do Cancer is a registered charity in United States, based in Ankeny, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2012, 14 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, Can Do Cancer reported income of $408k and spending of $245k, leaving 40% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $202k to $408k (+101%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 69% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Can Do Cancer sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Birth and Womens Health Center Inc ($407k), Seneca Volunteer Ambulance Squad ($408k) and Flanders Fields Ltd ($407k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 71% of the total. At year end it held assets of $536k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $536k.